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INARCHING. 



in coal smoke. They prefer a loamy 

 soil, but they will grow in sand, and 

 also in strong clay ; and, though not so 

 well, on chalk or limestone. They make 

 beautiful and permanent hedges, ele- 

 gant single trees and picturesque groups; 

 and, from the closeness of their foliage, 

 they are very useful in shutting out 

 any unpleasant objects. A Holly 

 hedge is also well adapted for a street 

 or road-side garden; as, while it serves 

 as a screen, it has a cheerful look; 

 both in summer and winter. 



Illicium. — Winter acecB. — Half- 

 hardy shrubs, with very dark strongly- 

 scented flowers, which smell like ani- 

 seed ; and hence the popular name 

 applied to the genus, of Aniseed 

 Tree. Most of the kinds come from 

 China, and are tender in British gar- 

 dens ; but /. floridum, an American 

 species, is very nearly hardy, only re- 

 quiring protection in severe winters. 

 They should all be grown in peat ; 

 and they are generally increased by 

 layers, though cuttings will strike in 

 heat, under a bell-glass. 



Impatiens. — BahaminecB. — Noli 

 me tangere. There are several an- 

 nual hardy species of this genus, most 

 of which are natives of Europe and 

 North America, and have yellowish 

 flowers ; but some have lately been 

 introduced with beautiful pink flowers 

 from India. They are all distinguished 

 by the seed-vessel springing open when 

 it is touched, and discharging the seeds. 

 All the kinds require a light soil, and 

 abundance of water ; and they are all 

 large and widely-spreading plants. 



Implements. — Those requisite for 

 Floriculture are chiefly the spade ; a 

 three- pronged fork, with a long han- 

 dle, and one with a short handle ; 

 the rake; the draw hoe, and thrust 

 hoe ; the spud ; the trowel ; the dib- 

 ber; the pruning-knife, the budding- 

 knife ; the pruning-shears ; the flower- 

 gatherer ; the short-grass scythe ; and 

 the roller. Besides these, there are 



various utensils, such as flower-pots of 

 different sizes : watering-pots, with 

 tubes and roses of different kinds and 

 sizes ; a syringe ; a wire-sieve, with 

 the meshes about half an inch square ; 

 hand-glasses and bell-glasses. ; baskets, 

 wheelbarrows for plants, and mould ; 

 handbarrows for carrying large pots 

 or boxes ; fumigating bellows ; a tin 

 box for dusting plants with lime or 

 powdered tobacco-leaves ; a small 

 painter's brush, for applying sulphur or 

 soap-suds ; and a sponge for cleaning 

 the leaves of plants. These are the 

 ordinary implements and utensils ; but 

 on a large scale there are some others, 

 which may be added, such as the 

 transplanter, averuncator, the garden- 

 engine, the bill, the hedge-shears ; the 

 last two of which are, however, sel- 

 dom used by ladies. 



Inarching. — A species of graft- 

 ing, in which the scion is only 

 partially separated from the parent 

 plant ; in such a manner, that while 

 it is uniting with the stock it de- 

 rives a portion of its nourishment from 

 the plant to be propagated. For this 

 purpose the stock is either planted near 

 the parent, or if in a pot it is placed 

 near it, in such a manner that a branch 

 from the scion can be readily joined 

 to the stock. The stock is sometimes 

 cut over immediately above its point 

 of junction with the branch joined to 

 it ; but more frequently the stock is 

 left at length. The stock may either 

 be united to the scion by notching the 

 one into the other, as in notch-graft- 

 ing; or simply by paring a portion of 

 the bark and wood from both scion and 

 stock, and splicing them together, as 

 in side -grafting. In either case the 

 scion is made fast to the stock by 

 tying them together with strands of 

 matting, and the graft so formed is 

 covered with moss tied on, or with 

 grafting-clay, or grafting-wax. After 

 a certain period, the scion and stock 

 unite, when the former is separated 



