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growth, are then to be taken, and tongued about two thirds through, 
and secured, with a wooden peg, an inch below the surface of the earth. 
In this state they must remain until they have made sufficient roots to 
support them, when cut off from the parent plant. When removed, it 
is advisable to shorten the head of each a little, and to keep them for a 
few days in a close frame, until they have struck root again. The stools 
are then to be properly cleaned, the decayed parts cut away, and the 
soil round the roots renewed, if required. 
By Inarching, or Grafting .—This is the usual mode of propagating 
the finer sorts of Camellias, and is to be performed early in spring, 
when the plants begin to grow. For this purpose, Curtis remarks, the 
stock, being a plant of the Single-red, or any other robust kind, in a 
pot, is to be fixed in a convenient resting-place, so contiguous to a 
young healthy shoot of the preceding year’s growth, of the variety you 
wish to increase, that, by the common mode of tongue-grafting, it can 
be inserted into a clean part of the side of the stock; and after being 
firmly bound with bass matting, a small piece of clay may be attached, 
to exclude air from the wounded part, and over this again, a small 
covering of damp moss may be tied, to prevent the clay from cracking. 
The head of the stock should then be shortened, (but not cut off,) so as 
to cause a greater flow of sap to the graft; and if the stock and graft 
are free growing, healthy plants, in six weeks or two months the union 
will be so complete, that the scion may be cut from the parent plant. 
In this state, it is better to let it continue a week; and, in that time, 
if the leaves remain unaffected by the separation, the clay and matting 
may all be removed, and the head of the stock cut off, a few inches 
above the insertion of the scion. It makes the grafted part look better 
to bandage a fresh piece of matting round it, which in another month 
may be finally removed; as, without this precaution, the scion is liable 
to swell out and become unsightly. At the end of a month, when the 
adhesion has taken place, it is advisable to slacken the bandage, and 
bind it again. If the union seems tolerably firm, the matting, with a 
little damp moss, is all that will be then necessary to secure success. 
The young plants, when removed, should be placed in a close frame, 
rather shady than otherwise. 
We may here observe, that instead of tongue-grafting, above men- 
