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tioned, side-grafting is to be preferred, in consequence of the former 
mode having the effect of weakening the stock. With regard to the 
period when the union of the scion and the stock has taken place, this 
will very much depend on circumstances; observation alone can dic¬ 
tate when it is proper to detach the scion from the parent plant, and 
afterwards remove the clay and bandage from it. There is an evil in 
allowing either to remain on too long, as well as in taking them off too 
soon ; but it is, perhaps, better to err a little on the former side, than 
on the latter. 
Greffe Blaikie. —Some cultivators adopt a very safe mode of in¬ 
arching, minutely described in the Gardener’s Magazine, vol. iv. p. 7, 
under the name of Greffe Blaikie. The principal of this method is, that 
after the scion has been bound by ligatures to the stock in the ordinary 
way, the inferior part of the scion is plunged in a small phial of water, 
which from time to time is removed, and the base of the submersed 
scion renewed, by cutting off its extremity. Mr. Murray, of the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, has still a more simple, and equally suc¬ 
cessful method ; which is, instead of using phials of water, to insert the 
lower extremity of the scion into a small potatoe or turnip. 
Mr. Palmer's mode of grafting differs from any other we have 
seen in use. An account of it was communicated to the Horticultural 
Society, and is as follows: In May, or July, he selects cuttings of the 
Single-red, with two or three eyes, and grafts of the varieties intended 
to be propagated, nearly of equal length, and unites them as is usual 
in inarching—the base of the cutting being half an inch below the base 
of the graft. They are then planted in white sand, deep enough to 
cover half an inch of the graft, and struck under a hand-glass, in the 
common way. Mr. Palmer is of opinion that one or two seasons, and 
much trouble may be saved, by propagating Camellias in this manner. 
Mr. Herbert’s mode of inarching is novel, and is thus described 
by him, in a letter to Joseph Sabine, Esq. when secretary of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, who had the kindness to communicate it to us. 
“Much the best way,” he says,“of inarching Camellias, is when the wood 
is green. At that time I have proved that the graft will unite in nine¬ 
teen days. You lean the green shoot against a stock, and inarch the 
top bud; in about nineteen days, that is to say, the moment the green 
