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tallow, or suet, l|oz. The whole-melted to- 

 gether, and, after being stirred, and allowed 

 to cool, it is used when rather less than milk- 

 warm. 



The tree peony may also be grafted with 

 perfect success by using the shoots of the cur- 

 rent year in the month of April as scions, and 

 grafting them on the tubers of the herbaceous 

 peony of the last year. 



Veneer-Grafting, Greffe en Placage. — The 

 scion, which may either contain one or several 

 buds or leaves, is cut like the mouth-piece of a 

 French flute elongated, as in Jig. 26. e ; the 

 stock is prepared to receive it, as at/; and, when 

 the scion and stock are united, the appear- 

 ance is as in fig. 27. g. The graft should not 

 be tied with worsted threads as is usually done, 

 but with untwisted linen or cotton thread ; and 

 the whole should be afterwards covered with 

 grafting-wax, and then plunged in heat, and 

 closely covered with a bell-glass (etouffe sous 

 une cloche), in M. S. Bodin's manner, till it 

 has begun to grow. This mode of grafting is 

 practised with great success by M. Camuset, 

 head gardener in the Jardin des Plantes. 



A Mode of budding luhich unites to the usual 

 Chance of budding, that of Flute-Grafting [de- 

 scribed in the Gardener s Magazine, vol. v. 

 p. 425.] The bud is prepared in the usual 



manner, except that both ends of the shield are cut square across, as 

 in fig. 28. a. On the stock the bark is cut horizontally and vertically 



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to a very small extent, as indicated at b. This being done, the right 

 hand of the operator applies the thin flat point, or spatula, of the handle of 



