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matting- and clay after the usual mode, with the exception of heading- the stock, 
which must not he done till the graft has grown. 
22. Inarching, or grafting by approach, as figure, is the usual mode resorted to, 
and is, without doubt, much the safest, and may 
be performed during the summer and autumn, 
after the ripening of the wood, or early in the 
spring, before the plants begin to grow, which is 
the best time. The scions may be cut from the 
parent plants in about eight weeks afterwards. 
The operation is performed in the same manner 
as the last, with the exception of claying, which 
is unnecessary. The chief care requisite is so to 
fix the pot containing the stock, that it may not 
be disturbed until after the scion is separated 
from the parent plant. 
When it is inconvenient to inarch in the usual way, the best method of grafting 
is that adopted a few years ago by Mr. Pike, gardener to J. W. Brereton, Esq., of 
Brinton, Norfolk, and latterly practised by us with perfect success at Chatsworth. 
It consists of detaching a shoot from a plant of the kind intended to be propagated, 
and inarching it upon a single stock, leaving a piece at the bottom of the cutting 
sufficiently long to thrust in a phial (see figure below), kept constantly supplied with 
water. These bottles may be suspended in any part of a large single plant, so that 
a variety of sorts may be inarched on one plant by means of cuttings brought 
from any neighbouring garden. 
23. Budding . — This is performed much in the same way as budding other 
plants. The common time is July, but it may also be 
done in the spring. Let the operation, if the weather 
be warm and sunny, always be done either early in the 
morning or late in the evening. The mode is this : cut 
off a shoot with good buds from the plant you wish to 
propagate ; take this branch in your left hand, having 
the thin end downwards, and make a sloping cut from 
an inch and a half below the bud to about half an inch 
or more above the bud, allowing your knife to enter half- 
way into the wood. Cut off the leaf where the bud is 
seated, but leave the foot-stalk remaining, presenting the 
appearance of (a) p. 37. Put this foot-stalk between your 
lips, holding it there whilst with the budding knife you 
cut two straight lines through the bark of the stock, in 
the form of a T. ( b ) Then take out the wood from the 
bark on which the bud is fixed ; in doing which be care- 
ful not to take the heart or root of the bud away with 
it. You must, therefore, examine it after the wood is 
disengaged : for if the heart be gone, a small hole will be perceivable ; in this, case 
you must try another bud. 
After the bud is ready, take the ivory half of your budding-knife, or, for want of 
