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very great care must be taken in binding to prevent the bark 

 from slipping round the stock, which, without attention, it is 

 very apt to do. After it is properly and neatly bound, put a 

 little loam or clay close round the stock, to the surface of the 

 pot, then, with a glass of a proper form (a figure of which he 

 gives) to prevent the damp from dripping on the scion, cover 

 the whole, and press it firmly into the mould, to prevent the air 

 or steam from getting to the plant ; the glass must not be taken 

 off, unless you find any of the leaves damping, and then only 

 till this has been remedied, when it must be immediately re- 

 turned. The stocks must next be placed on a brisk hot-bed of 

 dung, and, in about six weeks, the glasses may be taken off, 

 and the clay and binding removed ; but it will be necessary to 

 bind on a little damp moss in lieu of the clay, and to keep the 

 glasses on in the heat of the day, taking them off at night, 

 when, in about three weeks or a month, they will be fit to put 

 into the green-house, where they will be found to be one of the 

 greatest ornaments it can receive. I should recommend," he 

 observes, " the Mandarin orange for the first trial, as the fruit 

 is more firmly fixed than that of any of the other sorts," for, by 

 this method, he has successfully performed the operation with 

 not only the flowers, but also the fruit upon the scion, and has 

 had no less than seven oranges on a plant, in a pot of the small 

 sixty size. 



That successful cultivator, Henderson, of Wood-Hall, de- 

 tails his method of grafting the orange tribe as follows : — 

 " Take two-year-old wood, cut into lengths of about seven 

 mches ; if the stock be much thicker than the graft, cut a 

 piece out of the stock of a triangular figure, about an inch 

 and two-eighths in length, regulating the depth according to 

 the thickness of the graft, and keeping it square at the bottom. 

 Displace two leaves at the bottom of the graft, for the con- 

 venience of getting it put on ; cut the gi'aft right across under 

 one eye where a leaf has been taken off; dress the graft to fit 

 the receptacle made in the stock, observing to keep the lower 

 end of the graft equal in thickness as above ; always let three 

 or four leaves remain untouched on the graft. After the graft 

 is fitted in the stock, tie it up with bass matting, and put clay 

 round it. If the grafts and stocks be nearly of the same 



