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formed during the summer and autumn, after the ripening of the wood, 
or early in spring, before the plants begin to grow. The scions may be 
cut from the parent plants in about eight weeks. There is no necessity 
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to use clay in the operation of inarching, but if independent grafting be 
resorted to, clay must be used, and the wood must be quite ripe. ' The 
method called side-grafting is usually followed, but the tongue, if any, 
must be very small ; both in this operation, and that of inarching, care 
must be taken not to cut the stock or scion, too deep. With regard to 
budding, see the Horticultural Register, p. 144. The grafted and budded 
plants, as soon as the operations of insertion and claying are finished, 
should be kept under a hand-glass, in the greenhouse, or in a cold 
frame, until the scion or bud has grown for the first time; and not till 
then, can the heads of the stocks be cut off, without great risk of failure, 
because an exuberance of sap is thus thrown into the scions or buds, 
befoi e they are established to receive it without injury, — just as too 
great a supply of nutriment injures the infant of the human race. Nor 
should the ligatures and clay be removed before that time, (these and 
the foregoing remarks are also applicable to the young inarched plants,) 
after which, all the plants should have their tops nipped off, to two or 
three buds, or they may be removed by inarching or grafting them, if it 
be wished to increase the stock of the variety ; but unless one of these 
precautions be followed, the plants will very probably run up with a 
single stem, and instead of being bushy and pyramidal, will be loose and 
rambling', and must eventually be cut down. The young plants, after 
being thus decapitated, should be treated, if possible, in the same 
manner as recommended above, for the young stocks, viz., to be 
