Lie Bon Jardinier. 



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pared (b) : the lower part, being stripped of its leaves to the 

 length of two inches, is cut, and inserted in the usual manner 

 of cleft grafting. They may also be grafted in the lateral 

 manner (c). The graft is tied with a slip of woollen, and a 

 cap of paper (fig. 20.) is put over the whole to protect it from 

 the sun and rain. At the end of fifteen 

 days this cap is removed, and the ligature 

 at the end of a month ; at that time also 

 the two pairs of leaves (a) which have 

 served as nurses are removed. The scions 

 of those sorts of pines which make two 

 growths in a season, or, as the technical 

 phrase is, have a second sap, produce a 

 shoot of five or six inches the first year ; 

 but those of only one sap, as the Corsican 

 pine, Weymouth pine, &c. merely ripen 

 the wood grown before grafting, and form 

 a strong terminating bud, which in the fol- 

 lowing year produces a shoot of fifteen 

 inches, or two feet. 



According to M. Poiteau, a scion from 

 the lateral branch of any species of pine will 

 produce a vertical shoot ; but scions from 

 the lateral branches of silver firs, spruces, larches, or cedars, 

 will never produce a leading shoot ; at least, he says, some 

 such grafts have lived twenty years without doing so. That 

 they will do so, there is abundant proofs : e. g. certain spruce firs 

 at Zion House, and the larch on the lawn at Knowle in Kent. 

 A list of new plants offered for sale in 1825, by M. Cels, 

 contains the following names, as yet rare in this country. 

 Acer oblongum, Celtis senegalensis, Cinchona floribunda, 

 Dillenia scandens vera, Hellenia ccerulea, Philadelphus gracilis, 

 and two plants which we consider doubtful, Arbutus sinensis 

 and Hemerocallis coccinea. 



A similar list by M. Noisette contains Fraxinus nepalensis, 

 the F. floribunda of Dr. Wallich, Cactus napoleonis, and 

 Citrus scandens : the two last we never before heard of. 

 These lists are most incorrectly written, and our London 

 botanists doubt" the legitimacy of some of the names ; e. g. 

 Glycine macrophylla. 



Two plates of new or rare im- 

 plements are given, most of which 

 are curious,but some of them useful. | 

 Of tools there is the hoe-fork 

 (Jig. 21.) ; the bent-handled thrust 

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