Arm 9, 1859.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 313 
and if Lam going to cover a rafter 20 0 feet long T always that means. From this — and the tardiness often ill-formed and short-lived. Upon these data M. 
adhere to it. I may have to wait a few days lo ‘Jon nger for | of the D it never has been, s it likely ever to Regel, the author, condemns grafted e p P 
first. et than those who encoura, e Quo ase be popular as a means of propa sation: In all the large altoge ether, If his objections were founded on facts the 
paitfulness 1 ur eee red Rhododendron culture is an che d verdict would be just and reasonable rms but they 
in the plant ^as w will sustain it ina Kulte state for full feature, grafting is the principal, if not the only means are not. With an imperfect 1 of the yt of 
ww without ceasing, and I have kept the same | employed for i — ng and perpetuating the nume- the Sikkim ntroduce d, some 
pm a bearing state for three years. I have|rous hardy hybrid varieties. po Selen, m^ ihe f th 
{i November; | a few species, some of those from Sikkim example, 
on the 23d January the first fruit was cut, and since that are bey peer by cuttings of the ro nie wood, ena able puce to obi iate the evil. 
— T hav 1 ad a regular succession of b p sandy soil under a bell or handglass, and Ult bids it will no doubt be geri 3 
not long, for I do not grow the long kinds, but of my inest ne a t gentle bottom-heat. But, as in layering, * e a byona Rhododendrons of 30 ears’ stand- 
own —.— Black Spine, which is quite long fate the slowness of the process in producing established 
for table use, and of greater daily importance than an pamos compared with grafting, and having no compen | bet ween scion and stock can "hardly be —— may 
ion 
4 X 
hp ? 
te 
E 
al 2-foot pue oae s, does not recommend it for general dr plead successfully ag 
will thus be seen there has been nothing parti- nem | Per rfect unions, short lives, and stunted growth. And 
cular in the Een of ve. Lager they have had A me How y t was | of those from Sikkim 
a comfortable bottom heat fi water around the r$ and echoed ie a few oth es, p — present equally satisfactory catia although, of course, 
pipes in the tank into which the roots soon introduced grafted, ee were, as a rule, . lived, as yet of m uch briefer duration; but there is no reason 
mselves, and I have bai that a ng of dung-water unhealthy, and i in every way undesirable. It wou uld lea what falli Another 
put occasionally into the tank did not do any injury of M. Regel objections is that no stock at all can 
Asto light they have been M on the northern | cuss the subject in all its bearings, * even if it were | found for e of the small dwarf species Fb ently in 
slope of the house, and of heat I have already spoken. worth While to do 80. But we PM: blen assert ee an 0 however hardly tenable, rer if it 
hese plant no good | wer 
ea! e 
more than usually vigorous and fruitful would be erben who has bestowed his care on — worthy | eiple so widely and usefully applicable as È 
regarded as heretical by most cultivators ; dt the|of it, will be found t To show | known to aa: With reference to the stocks most suit- 
result show: s there is a shorte er and cheape r way to ~~ kind of horticultural knowledge sometimes coupled | able for the Various Sikkim Rhodode ndrons, we shall 
i ith an objection sn grafted ‘tanta; t 
than ot pope TW g hear x — instances where ein tor collections The best season for grafting the Rhododendron is 
for a l Pe ht temperature as connected est k i under the | early spring— February, 2 the command of heat can 
with the eh t e but are the benefits 3 tat al ime 12 should be seedlings. It be had. It will however, be perfectly successful in 
emfined to that n as soon as the 
shoots of the current sea- 
son are matured. There 
whole range of the vege- . antages 
table kingdom, for autumn grafting, but, on 
with plants that are natives the contrary, many dis- 
of countries where advantages, the chief of 
nights in the growing sea- which is the necessity for 
son lose and warm, I protecting the plants 
believe our slavii at- thi h the winter; whil 
tempts at imitation those grafted in spring 
natural conditions are nox- be sufficiently established 
ious, and not warranted be d to the 
inductive philosophy, for g 3 2.6. 
until we can command th supposing all necessary 
brilliant conti treatment has been timel 
sunlight of the tropics, it and skil rfi . 
is perfect no: - indi les are 
while she union between 
tock a 
tem ‘ d scion is in pre- 
1 U 1 a. thie is an. 
tries Grape d gress; and gr is 
: cum to the greatest per. 2 ecessary in enabling Ha 
fection, we y say / lants bear e 
Gra it to have a A ES aE If the tran- 
nigh! in ee of 70° f sition be too rapidly or 
to 80° in "d y effected, the 
at what — experience ? la yo leaves 
I nut. ans . 1 qux ^ 2 and otherwise dis- 
diner who prided p 
uence the health and 
chly fi f at eai the plants — 
unches o considerably damaged. 
NE me ho -neve mvenience of treatment 
coloured stocks are 
dressed a brother SM: 1. FIG. 2. rio. 3. FIG. 4. 1 mg In exten- 
“Mr. ben oom, J cannot tell how it is,! at Lean eed ht t lt ti ti ade; but 
+h 1 
Poterie. grafted Se are not sometimes |all m orent purposes the ny is the more advisable. 
found: but this usually arises epos: accidental pian d however is not m until the stocks are 
nd n nothi rhat ed. 
stan a 
4 d to do with the peeps E the system. There three principal modes of grafting, 
the house in which my Cucumbers are gm wing | The chief cause of such unhealthiness arises from | either of which i is to je anaes as circumstances may 
ere are a few Pine plants, small s suc ckers giv me in stunted or diseased stocks. If vam be unf. tel 
1 = 
In 
— s 
PCS EU tunately seem to require; if the scion is merely a small point, as 
the autumn m Ed 857 iat | employed, and even ! i k lf 3 a young seedling plant, choose Fig. 1 
— m e summer of last year they were en- | with the scion, we believe Am past the art of man | (wedge grafting). 8 a shoot or two of a rare kind 
ly wit! ithont, bottom heat, TEA ‘the chamber for to producand healthy and ‘cle alent ty with the com- is to be made in ny plants as possible, . 2. 
i h as qui ma until the end of September. | bination. much care is necessary, and is by the best | (side grafting) will ene the best method . 
2: I hare. sin several of usd plants had showed dd cultivators g aris to the raising of and preparing the when plenty of good sh be had, adopt that illus- 
ave since cul ral small but excellently | stock, to the subsequent stages of the plants|trated in Fig 3 (saddle 3 In Fig. 1 it will be- 
3 that a 
i CUm eg spec: mas, E an n Enville, à in January weighing progress — s 
Be a uo eee 533 The advantages of grafting are important: its dis- s above the stock. It is of importance to 
Vines in th f e: 2 5 gay ews Frontignan renee E: a nominal It affords a ready and n his i in practice k produces a large amount 
and be desired, 3 have sot thee n A "ees [RS undan s for increasing any given 5 it | of cellular 7 matter in e ess of its union with =. 
; Were fit to pick the first week in Marc aes d if the latter exactly fitted | the incised | 
and 
This I think is proof sufficient that a much lower more overing, in me Jd eaten wal if not of | the stoc this 
ES temperature than is usual may be indulged in, fl 
and it is also a proof that 
x matter 
i mportane e, it tends in inerease ens profusion, = in a comparatively imperfect union with the addition 
eedling state characterise | of an unsightly scar. For the same purpose & por- 
. deners need not be | the best hybrid d i- | ti 
harrassed ont of their 2 Ph rest gardeners | the best hybrids. . An thane advantage are as mani- | tion of the stock, 5, Fi 
X e CARNIS ate era- | fest and ful in ivati r S 50105 á 
> tare ` 1g Pp | fest and as = the cultivation of species as they | covered by the scion. This is perhaps not 
: Which is q onde ary and in all cases answers | are necessar na increase of varieties. 2 But for x picti d i re i 
ee Purpose ex cept that of i inreasing me coal | precocity in ad by grafting, kar oct d few of the e y M. 
veh Ihave thus detailed the 8 | Sikkim x , Rhododendrons _ ver 8 e flowered under but it Seuls the less practically 
my fruit were produc I e monk 6 «Femara their | with other minute - “nortan mate 
conjunction with theory ean 
p 
r thought, Rn Paes it to 
ech Er Resa ri g cu Mator Many of th e VON 80 4 were tice in con 
x mself whether he will “go and while in a very youn state transferred e | 
3o likewise. W.P. Ayres, Orchardleigh Park, March | their roo ts) “4 ater to stoc jf em ee tN g^ T iie 
hybri 
speedy, in a few they are yet waited for. 
— RHODODEND REON —No. 
W. Since she, above was written we hav een the 
maT the ordinary kinds ee ue February number of the Journal de 11 dee 
varieties ud 2 em ost zen increased, and {pepe d 8 d of F aterial is Cotton 
some form or othe, be raised, by se Pee grafti ing is in whi ch is per from a Germ an periodical reiterating — — the 5 
ting these iq eo a peti " heat : 
is ae pda but in N cuttings ou s to supersed ente as the ott 
per 1 as P 
Pa 3 e oan enis. XR. of timited a m being E EET oed nisl Tar die desirable. The g = 
" ni mi jiave mparatively | plan nb considers, present various more 
35: it can be increased to hui outa ent by | not, he sys always uite wel, and ey ^ 
