August, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



21 



qualities of the 

 plant. If, instead of 

 having to toil 

 through the disap- 

 pointing operations 

 of budding or graft- 

 ing, or having to 

 wait two or three 

 years for a seedling 

 to flower or fruit, 

 the nurseryman can 

 obtain typical re- 

 sults in one-half or 

 one-quarter of that 

 time by inarching, 

 he not only saves 

 much time, but 

 money too, and the 

 world has the bene- 

 fit of the novelty 

 much sooner. Here, 

 for instance, is one 

 practical result: 



In the case of the 

 mango (now being 



introduced into Florida) the price of the 

 young plants will be greatly reduced by 

 this inarching of seedlings. Hundreds of 

 seedling stock plants may be joined to the 

 branches of mature trees. In a month 

 there will be complete union and the cions 

 may be severed from the mother tree and set 

 out on the seedling roots. Enough young 

 trees can be propagated in two months by 

 this method to plant ten acres and at very 

 little expense. With some plants Mr. Oliver 

 has saved a year's time in bringing them 

 to flower, and several years' time in 

 bringing others to fruit. 



This feature of time-saving cannot be over- 

 estimated. Let us suppose a new rose is pro- 

 duced by hybridization. Left to itself the 

 seedling would be perhaps four seasons in 

 bringing forth a flower of maximum size, such 

 as would serve as a firm basis to determine its 



Rose seedlings, foar weeKs alter germmation, inarched to stocks of the Manetti rose. During the 

 process of uniting the seedlings are kept in a moist and growing condition by the soil held around the 

 roots by buriap. Union is effected in from three to four weeks 



merit. Budding to Manetti stock only adds 

 to the delay by so much time as must elapse 

 before the seedling is mature enough to give 

 buds and wood fit for propagation. By the 

 seedling inarch method the tiny seedling 

 three weeks after germination may be 

 inarched to the vigorous Manetti stock and 

 will produce typical flowers in a few months. 

 The preliminary stages are the ordinary 

 ones of raising from seed. The seedling 

 is pricked off into a two-inch pot shortly 

 after the cotyledons are developed, and 

 is placed as near the rim as possible. In 

 three weeks the little plant is removed, 

 the root-ball wrapped and the cuts joined 

 and tied together. The union will be 

 perfect before the cotyledons decay. By 

 this seedling-inarch system flowers of max- 

 imum size have been obtained in three 

 months after germination of the seedling. 



A typical experi- 

 ment is that with 

 the Australian fin- 

 ger-lime {Citrus 

 Australasica) . A 

 seedling of this was 

 inarched five weeks 

 after germination to 

 a two-year-old 

 lemon seedling. 

 Two years after ger- 

 mination the lime 

 bore fruit. A hybrid 

 was made by ferti- 

 lizing two flowers of 

 the lime with the 

 pollen of a small 

 orange tree and two 

 years and eight 

 months after the 

 sowing of the lime 

 seed the hybrid 

 seedling was large 

 enough to be in- 

 arched upon a seed- 

 ling citrus. In two years more these tiny 

 seedling crosses are expected to bloom and 

 produce fruit. In this case inarching will 

 have reduced the time factor by more than 

 one-half, besides greatly simplifying the 

 work of propagation and ensuring success. 

 With the delicious mangosteen, a tropical 

 fruit now on trial in Porto Rico, the Isle 

 of Pines, the Philippine Islands, and 

 Hawaii, a plant whose roots start so slowly 

 that in cultivation a large proportion of 

 the seedlings die, the difficulty has been 

 overcome by using a nurse-plant, pre- 

 ferably Garcinia tinctoria, to which the 

 seedling mangosteen is united. The seed- 

 ling has all the benefit of the more robust 

 roots of the nurse-plant, and in a few weeks 

 has either developed strong roots of its 

 own or is well joined to the Garcinia and 

 can dispense with its own weaker roots. 



A Business Man's Garden-By A. Howknd, 



Massa- 

 chusetts 



SHOWING THE POSSIBILITIES BEFORE ONE WHO IS IN EARNEST, ALTHOUGH HAVING BUT FEW 

 HOURS OF LEISURE— THE PRIME IMPORTANCE OF A WELL-THOUGHT-OUT PLAN TO BEGIN WITH 



TO THE average man of moderate means 

 doing business in the city and living 

 in the suburbs a garden seems almost a 

 necessity — for why live in the country 

 unless you can enjoy some of its benefits ! 

 To be sure his time is decidedly limited, 

 perhaps an hour before breakfast in the 

 early spring mornings or an hour or so 

 after dinner in the long evenings. But 



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The detail of the rustic arbor and pergola 



if he really be a lover of flowers and of 

 vegetables these mornings with the de- 

 licious air of early spring, the appearance 

 of first one and then another of the summer 

 birds will be a memory never to be forgot- 

 ten and unfortunately never even known 

 to those mortals who have not the energy 

 to overcome that "morning laziness." 



Assuming, then, that we really want 

 some sort of a garden, what is the result? 

 A small plot of ground is dug up and planted 

 with either vegetables or flowers — gen- 

 erally a strip alongside a fence, wall or 

 building — but without much regard for 

 the probable result for the future. 



If one has a clear space of say, 30 x 60 

 ft., it would be better to start with some 

 definite plan which, after a few years, when 

 fully developed will give a completed unit. 



Of course for those who can afford it 



such a garden may be built at once and 

 planted with full grown vines and plants 

 which will give excellent results the second 

 year. But most people are unwilling to 

 lay out a lot of money in one sum, pre- 

 ferring to do as much as they can them- 

 selves, adding bit by bit as time and purse 

 will allow. 



The plan of the garden — just an ordinary city lot 



