PROPAGATION. 99 



He says, the common wax of the French is 



Pitch one-half pound. 



Beeswax.. " " 



Cow-dung one pound. 



To be boiled together, and laid on with a brush, and for 

 using cold or on strips of muslin, equal parts of tallow, 

 bees-wax, and rosin, some preferring a little more tallow. 

 J. J. Thomas, whose practical knowledge is proverbial, 

 recommends for its cheapness 



Linseed oil one pint. 



Rosin .six pounds. 



Bees-wax on e pound. 



Melted together, to be applied warm with a brush,, or to 

 be put on paper or muslin, or worked with wet hands in- 

 to a mass and drawn out into ribbons. 



The season for grafting is quite a prolonged one, if we in- 

 clude the period during which it may be done in the house, 

 and the ability we have of retarding the scions by cold, 

 using ice. It should be done while the grafts are dor- 

 mant, which is at any time from the fall of the leaf until 

 the swelling of the buds. As the grafts would be likely 

 to suffer from prolonged exposure, out-door grafting is 

 done just before vegetation commences in the spring, but 

 may be prolonged until the stocks are in full leaf, by 

 keeping back the scions, in which case, however, there is 

 more danger to the stock unless a portion of its foliage is 

 allowed to remain to keep up the circulation ; under these 

 circumstances, too, side-grafting is sometimes used with 

 the same view. 



The stone fruits are worked first ; cherries, plums, and 

 peaches, then pears and apples. With regard to grafting 



