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and if not placed directly in contact, failure is certain. The stock 
and scion should be as near in size (diameter) as possible to insure 
success. The scion should have at least two buds. This is a very 
strong and handsome mode for standard roses when grafted at the 
standard height. It makes a handsome finish, covering a part 
of the stock which, by the other methods, if not trimmed carefully, 
long remains a scar, and sometimes never become covered with 
bark. The stocks should never be over an inch in diameter, and 
nearer the size of the scion the better. If the graft should be 
successful, it will grow freely. The bandages should then be 
slightly loosened, but not removed, to allow for the swelling of the 
wood. Give support by tieing securely, and carefully remove all 
suckers. In the fall, cut the shoots down to within three or four 
eyes of the present year’s growth. 
INN-ARCHING. 
A sort of layering, by the common or slit process, in which the 
talus or heel intended to throw out fibres, instead of being inserted 
in the soil, is inserted in the wood, or between the wood and bark 
of another plant, so as to incorporate with it. It is the most cer- 
tain mode of propagation with plants difficult to excite to a dispo- 
sition for rooting; and, when all other modes fail, this, when a 
proper description of stock is to be found, is sure to succeed. 
The stock designed to be inn-arched, and the plant from which 
the layer or shoot is to be selected, should be near together. 
If the branches of the plant from which the shoots are to be taken 
are too high for the stocks, the stocks should be planted in pots 
and elevated on posts or stands. To perform the operation, hav- 
ing first made one of the most convenient branches or shoots ap- 
proach the stock, mark on the body of the same the part where it 
will most easily join the stock, and in that part of the shoot pare 
away the bark and part of the wood two or three inches in length, 
and in the same manner pare the stock in the proper place for 
the juncture of the shoot. Make a slit upwards in that part 
