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GRAFTING. 
£chap. IV. 
slit made downwards in the stock to receive 
it. The parts are then made to meet as 
exactly as possible, and are bound together 
with bast mat, and covered with grafting 
clay, as in common grafting. In five or six 
months the union will be complete; and the 
inarched plant will be ready to be separated 
from the parent, which is done with a very 
sharp knife, so as to leave a clean cut, and 
not a bruised one. The head of the stock, 
if it was left on when the plant was inarched, 
is then cut away, and the plant is ready for 
removal. It is, however, customary to keep 
on the grafting clay and ligature for a few 
weeks, till the plant is firmly established. 
This mode of propagation is very commonly 
practised with Camellias and Magnolias; 
and it is usual in nurseries to see a fine new 
kind of Camellia surrounded by a sort of 
frame, on which are several pots of stocks of 
the single red, placed at different heights for 
the convenience of attaching to them different 
branches of the choice kind, to undergo the 
process of inarching. In most of these cases 
the head of the stock is retained, and the 
scion introduced at the side; but as soon as 
