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VI. Young Vine Shoots, Rose Shoots, and other So7is of Shrubs, 



about the middle of June, were cut, in the same way as car- 

 nations for layering, to the next node, and the part so cut laid 

 in the earth, in a ball of moss, near the mother plant. In the 

 course of a few weeks they had rooted, and the same summer 

 were fit to be transplanted, with the ball of moss, to their 

 destination. 



VII. For grafting Apricots and Peaches. 



In the spring, young trees, with their roots packed in large 

 bundles of moss, were laid in the ground, in the shade, till vege- 

 tation began. They were then put in close to the parent plant, 

 and a twig inarched upon each of them. They soon grew 

 together, could be separated, and the same summer were 

 planted out as standards. 



VIII. For round-headed [or Parasol'] Acacias. [R. Pseud- 

 Acacia umbraculifera Dec. Encyc. of Trees and Shrubs, 

 p. 234.] 



These are very difficult to raise in open ground, because the 

 branches are either too dry, or the sap already in motion while 

 the wild stock is still dormant. I surrounded the roots of a 

 common acacia, of from one to two years old, with moss balls, 

 and brought them into vegetation early in the year, in a cold 

 greenhouse. They were then grafted with freshly cut, and there- 

 fore perfectly healthy, twigs of Robin/a Pseud- Acacia umbracu- 

 lifera Dec, and succeeded well. They were hardened by 

 degrees, and afterwards, on the part between the root and the 

 graft, towards the top of the stem of the common acacia, they 

 were inarched in the crown, and were kept in the moist balls of 

 moss surrounding their roots till they grew, when watering was 

 discontinued, and the wild stock died off by degrees. 



Although tedious, this method appears, at the same time, 

 desirable, when it happens that on any particular spot a common 

 acacia, already grown, is to be transformed into a round-headed 

 one, for it is certain the price of round-headed acacias is 

 also at all times so considerable as to render thetrouble worth 

 while. 



Should it be found, as I suppose, that cuttings of R. Pseud- 

 ^caeia umbraculifera Dec. can be struck (about midsummer 1 

 did not succeed ; it might do better in spring, in beds from 

 which the air is excluded), these might be used for inarching, 

 thus saving previous grafting; the cuttings could be planted, 

 early in the year, in moss balls filled with sand. 



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