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the grafted plants have the appearance of being stifled or choked for want of 

 air. This mode of grafting is practised at any season ; and the plant has com- 

 pleted its growth in six weeks after being put under the bell-glass. A young 

 Belgian gardener, from M, Soulange's establishment, is now practising this 

 mode of grafting in Mr. Knight's exotic nursery, King's Road, with the same 

 rapid success as is experienced at Fromont. 



Lateral, or side, grafting is practised by the Belgians, at any period from the 

 spring to autumn. It has been once or twice described in this Magazine, but 

 with some variations from the Abbe Berlese's mode. A small portion of bark 

 and wood is cut from one side of the stock, close to the ground, and for one 

 or two inches in length ; and a similar portion of bark and wood is cut from the 

 lower end of the scion j so that, when it it is applied to the stock, both barks 

 may join exactly. The graft, thus formed, is then made fast with some worsted 

 threads. The scion need not have more than one bud and one leaf, and its 

 whole length need not exceed an inch, or an inch and a half. The head of the 

 stock is not cut oiF. The grafted plant, in its pot, is then laid down hori- 

 zontally on the surface of a cold-bed of tan, or on that of a bed of perfectly 

 dry moss, in either case in a pit or frame with the sashes on. The grafted 

 part is then hermetically covered with a bell-glass ; and, at the end of fifteen 

 days, or at the most three weeks, the scion will be found perfectly united to the 

 stock, and the grafted plant fit for sale. During the whole time that the scion is 

 uniting to the stock, it must be kept in a green-house or pit, with the sashes on, 

 but always without extra heat. 



Approach-grafting by cuttings. This expression is applied to a mode of 

 approach-grafting in which the stock is cut down to the ground, and the 

 point of the shoot, which is to be inarched, bent down to it, and attached 

 to it immediately above the collar, in the manner of whip, or of cleft, grafting. 

 This mode requires rather a long shoot on the plant which is to be pro- 

 pagated ; but otherwise it is very expeditious, and produces handsome plants. 



Chap. Ill, Method of Classification. We have already noticed the two 

 scales, or gamuts, which we shall here pass over, in order to exemplify them in 

 the next chapter. At the end of this chapter, which occupies only two pages 

 and a half, a list is given of the principal commercial gardeners in Europe who 

 cultivate the Camellia. Seventeen of these reside in France, five at Ghent, one 

 at Brussels, one at Enghien, one at Antwerp, one at Tournay, one at Turin, 

 and four at Milan. The two mentioned in London are Knight and Loddiges, 

 to which, at all events, Messrs. Chandler ought to have been added. 



Chap. IV. Description of Species and Varieties. 



Scale ] . Camellias. Unicolores. Flowers White. C. alba simplex, a. plena, 

 amabilis, axillaris, anemoneflora alba plena, and twenty-two others. 



Scale 1. Unicolores. Flowers of a clear Rose. C. Aitonw, amplissima, 

 ApoUina, dahhVs/^ora, and twenty-two others. 



Scale 1. Unicorores. Flowers of a clear Cherry-Red. C. aucubcBibVia, Am- 

 herstia, amce^na, augusta, and ninety-two others.] 



Scale 1. Unicolores. Flowers of a deep Cherry Red. C. Alexandrzana, 

 althseaeflora, atroviolacea, and fifty-one others. 



Scale II. Umcolores. Flowers Carnation. C. alba lutescens, or roseo- 

 flavescens, carnea, incarnata, and Kew blush. 



Scale II. Unicolores. Flowers Orange Red, more or less deep. C. ane- 

 moneflora, Warratdh, sinensis, atro-rubens, augusta rubra aurantiaca, and 

 teen others. 



Scale 1. Bicolores. First Division. White ground, striped or blotched 

 with Rose. C. Bankse'e, dianthiflora striata plena, delicatissima, elegantissiraa, 

 gloria mundi, imperialis, and ten others. 



Scale I. Bicolores. Second Division. Ground Rose, streaked or dotted with 

 Cherry Red. C. Colvilhi vera, Gray's Venus, Gray's Eclipse, splendida, and 

 eight others. 



Scale 1. Bicolores. Third Division. Cherry Ground, more or less deep, 

 varied by White. C, A'glae, Adonidea, dianthiflora, and thirteen others, 



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