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may be raised either from seed or cuttings. In an emergency, 

 a cutting may be used for a stock. In winter gardens and 

 localities where the Camellia grows in the open air, it may be 

 grafted by approach, and even by ordinary cleft -grafting. 



Caragana. 



Stock. — Caragana arborescens (from seed). Mode of Graft- 

 ing. — Cleft-grafting ; inlaying (in March and April) ; close to 

 the ground or as standards. 



Remarks. — As the stock is very vigorous in comparison with 

 the varieties which are grafted upon it, it should be trans- 

 planted in the winter which precedes the grafting. Slender- 

 branched varieties should be grafted at the height fixed for the 

 branching. Attend to the removal of extraneous shoots, and 

 destroy snails. 



Cat alp a. 



Stock. — Catalpa japonica (from seed). Mode of Grafting. — 

 Cleft-grafting (in April) ; crown-grafting (in May) ; close to 

 the ground, or as standards. 



Remarks. — Select scions the wood of which is fully two 

 years old at the base. They should be cut a very short time 

 before using them, and placed in dry sand. The Catalpa may 

 also be shield-budded in August. 



Ceanotlrus. 



Stock. — Ceanothus americana (from seed). "Mode of Graft- 

 ing. — Cleft -grafting on a piece of root (in March and April, if 

 grafted in the open air ; in January and February, if under 

 glass). 



Remarks. — In selecting portions of root for stocks, be careful 

 to preserve the fibrous roots at the end. Clip the leaves of the 

 scion through the middle. Place the grafts under cloches or 

 frames ; the union of the parts is effected in five or six 

 weeks. 



