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grow straggling or ^Teak, the shoots should be from time to time 

 shoitened. 



PROPAGATING BY INARCHING, 



Is the most common and also the most expeditious and certain mode 

 of any, and is performed in general in spring, vrhen the plants are be- 

 ginning to grow. The essential difference between this mode and that of 

 grafting, as noticed above, is only in placing the plants, as represented 

 below, so that neither the one nor the other is displaced until the uniom 

 has fully taken place, when they may be separated and treated like plants 

 that have been grafted. 



TnBTching may be performed during the summer and autumn, after the 

 ripening of the wood, or early in spring before the plants begin to grow. 

 It is not necessar}^ to use clay in operating by this method, a httle damp 

 soft moss slightly tied round the part where the union is to take place is 



