2-i2 Mode of grafting 'RJiododendron alta-clerense. 



unpleasant meetings between masters and their men would be 

 avoided ; and not only that, but both the master gardeners and 

 their employers would have the pleasure of looking at healthy 

 and vigorous-growing plants. I by no means wish to insinuate 

 that no plants would die under good treatment; but it must be 

 allowed, that it would give them a fairer chance to live. The 

 mode of treatment that I would advise is, that, when the plants 

 are turned out in summer, let them enjoy a partial shade (but 

 by no means place them close under a garden wall), and let 

 them have a free current of air; attend to watering, tying them 

 up, &c. I would also recommend syringing morning and even- 

 ing, while the weather continues hot ; and, by attending to the 

 above, I have no doubt the plants will do well. 

 November 14. 1835. 



Art. YII. Notice of a successful Mode of grafting the ^hododetidron 

 dlta-clerense. By Mr. Joseph Walker. 



Having been successful in propagating /Rhododendron alta- 

 clerense in a way that I have not before seen practised, I make 

 it known to you, hoping that my doing so may induce others 

 to practise it ; and trusting it may be the means of making this 

 scarce species of this beautiful genus of plants more abundant. 

 Calling at Chatsworth last spring, I observed that they had a 

 fine plant of it beautifully in bloom ; and I begged the favour of 

 Mr. Paxton to allow me to take a small sprig, which he kindly 

 permitted me to do. I then inserted the end of the sprig into 

 a potato, and brought it home with me a distance of eight or 

 nine miles. Happening to have a small plant of iZhododendron 

 ponticum in a pot, I cut it down to about 5 in. above the pot, 

 and grafted it in the whip manner with the small sprig thus pro- 

 cured, letting the end still remain inserted in the potato. I 

 then clayed it, and put it under a hand-glass in a cool vinery, 

 where it united to the stock, and is now a healthy plant, standing 

 out under a south wall. 



Bafmer Cross, 7iear Sheffield, Nov. 10. 1835. 



Art. VIII. Remarks on cropping Fruit-tree Borders. 

 By Mr. T. Rutger. 



The articles which have occasionally appeared in your Maga- 

 zine, upon the injury that wall-fruit trees sustain by cropping the 

 borders, seem to leave no doubt that the system has an injurious 

 effect; and, therefore, whatever may be advanced towards reme- 



