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wood turns brown, you cut it off, and cover over the wound. The best 
covering is the moist dying leaf of a Hippeastrum. Immediately in¬ 
arch the second bud; in nineteen days more cut it off and inarch the 
third bud, and so on. These single buds make vigorous shoots the next 
spring. 
Either of the above modes of inarching or grafting may be adopted, 
according to the fancy of the operator. The one, however, most com¬ 
monly followed, is that which we have first described. 
By Budding .—This method is often resorted to by cultivators, 
when they have a scarce variety of great value, which they wish to 
increase rapidly; as a shoot with five or six eyes, which would only 
have made one plant by being inarched or grafted, will probably 
make four or five plants by budding, if the operation has been cleverly 
performed. It is only in particular cases when this mode is advisable; 
and, even then, it is necessary to be done with great care, and by an 
experienced cultivator. The time which they take to make good-sized 
plants is also against the plan of propagating them from buds, as the 
stock, if budded, will require a year and a half to be equally as forward 
as the same stock, if it had been grafted. 
By Cuttings .—All the sorts of Camellias will strike from cuttings, 
but some are much more easily struck than others. In this class may 
be mentioned the Single-red, and Middlemist’s Red, which will grow 
faster than any other kind whatever. . The Double-white and the 
Myrtle-leaved are among the most difficult to strike, but, when ob¬ 
tained in this manner, they always make the handsomest plants. The 
best time for selecting the cuttings is in the autumn, when the young 
shoots are sufficiently ripe at the base. They are to be carefully pre¬ 
pared, by being cut smoothly over with a sharp knife at a joint, and 
divested of one or two leaves at the bottom, (but not shortening any, as 
is practised by some,) and then planted firmly, about two inches deep, 
into flat pans, or wide thirty-two sized pots, filled with pure white sand, 
four of which can be covered by a common hand-glass. They should 
afterwards be well watered, and plunged in mould, not tan, in the pro¬ 
pagating house, which ought to be kept moist, and shaded for two or 
three months, but not too warm, as that will endanger the whole. In 
this situation they will only require to have the glasses occasionally 
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