OF PRUNING. 239 



the fluids by shading ; to head back the stock as far 

 as the origin of the scion, as soon as the union is 

 found to be complete; and at the same time to re- 

 trench from the scion a part of its buds and leaves, so 

 that there may not be a too rapid demand upon the 

 stock, while the line of union is still imperfectly con- 

 solidated. 



A method of propagating Camellias, (Jig. 30,) by 

 putting the end or heel of a scion into a vessel of 

 water, mentioned in the Gardener's Magazine, ii. 83, 

 is essentially the same as inarching. The water 

 communicated to the scion through the wounded end 

 supplies it with that food which, under natural cir- 

 cumstances, would be derived from the roots of the 

 plant to which it belongs.* 



CHAPTEE XIII. 



OF PRUNING. 



" La taille est une des operations les plus import- 

 antes et les plus d^licates du jardinage. Confine 



* One of our most experienced gardeners propagates the camellia 

 with great facility, by whip grafting small seedling stocks and 

 plunging the pots in the bone-hlack of the sugar refineries, ooTering 

 the graft entirely with this fine loose material. This not only pre- 

 serves an uniform state of moisture about the graft, but it seems to 

 exert some specific action upon the growth of new wood, doubtless 

 from the action of the phosphate of lime in the bone-black. The 

 luxuriance of the young grafts raised in this way is very remark- 

 able. A. J. D. 



