February 1, 1908 
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morning and give thorough ventilation, 
keeping the house at forty-zeven to fifty 
degrees at night until the buds start. The 
temperature can then be raised at the 
rate of one or two degrees a week, with 
less ventilation after the leaves show. By 
the time the flower buds appear it should 
have reached fifty-four degrees, and should 
then be raised to fifty-five or fifty six 
degcees, at which temperature the house 
should ke kept until the plants are through 
flowering. Ventilate at sixty-two to sixty- 
five in the morning, but let the tempera- 
ture run up to seventy-five deg. at noon 
After the buds appear, the beds should 
be given a watering with liquid manure 
once or twice a week. The later sorts can 
best be grown in pots or -boxes, as they 
can then be left outside until the weather 
becomes severe, when they should be 
placed in a cool greenhouse and brought 
into heat as desired. 
Roses in pots and boxes, if only a few 
plants are used for forcing, may be grown 
in nine-inch pots, or in long boxes six 
inches wide and about the same depth. 
This method is particularly desirable for 
hybrid perpetnals. The small plants 
should be grown the same-as for the beds, 
The tea roses will do best if kept growing 
in the house, although some florists think 
it well to harden them by placi g them 
out of doors when they are in eight or 
nine inch pots, and plunging them to 
their rims in sand or coal ashes, the same 
as should be done with the hybrids. They 
will need frequent syringing, but care 
should be taken not to give enough water 
to the soil to admit of their becoming 
water-soaked. 
The hybrids should be dried off, and 
will need the same attention as those in 
solid’ benches, until the wood becomes 
hard, when they should be pruned, and 
after being first placed in a cold frame, 
shonld be gradually brought in to heat. 
Adiantum Farleyense is the most beau- 
tiful of all adiantams. 
The Oxchatd. 
Grafting Lemons. 
The following report as to whether 
Washington naval orange shoots could 
be grafted on lemon stocks has been pre- 
pared by Mr. G. Quinn, Chief Inspector 
of Fruit, under instructions from Hon. L. 
O’Loughlin, Minister of Agriculture :— 
I have the honor to state that this 
operation may be done successfully, and 
does not involve more than the ordinary 
skill required in grafting other fruit trees. 
The plan I would suggest following is to 
cut off the lemon tree about ground level 
or an inch or so lower, and insert between 
the sap layer and the bark, by what is 
known as ‘ bark’ or ‘rind’ grafting, scions 
which would be in number according to 
the diameter of the stock, the scions being 
-no nearer than about 4 in. from each 
other, as measured around the outer 
bark of the stock. The best wood for 
this purpose is found among the nicely 
ripened shoots of a thickness of about 
three-sixteenths of an inch, and on which 
the buds are yet dormant Scions about 
4 in. in length are suficient. Scions are 
cat in the usual way, so that they may be 
forced down into position between the 
bark and wood layers. The wounded 
portion of the stock and the terminal end 
of the scion should be covered with graft- 
ing wax or good clay, and a substantial 
tie of strong string should be bound 
around the stock and drawn sufliciently 
tight to press the bark against the scions, 
and the scions, ii turn, against the sap 
layers of the stock. Hinally, broken earth 
or sand should then be carefully heaped 
up over the stuck and the scions until 
the whole lot are enveloped in a mound, 
and no portion of the scions or stock 
visiblo: ‘ Lf a bell jar or large flower pot 
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As the scions begin to send up shoots 
these coverings or jars should then be 
removed. The best time to perform this 
grafting work is in the early spring, but 
as the sap of the citrus trees is flowing 
pretty freely at any time in the summer 
where they are grown under irrigation, it 
isa simple matter to perform the grafting 
during the summer-time, providing the 
necessary shade aud shelter can be ob- 
tained. Another method consists of in- 
serting buds of the orange into the older 
limbs of the lemon tree, not far above 
where they emerge from the trunk The 
common T bud is used, and the wounded 
sections should then be covered up with 
grafting wax, and then bound with ordi 
nary binding string,-or by binding up 
with waxed cloth, sufficiently strong to 
draw the wound together. The tops are 
not cut off the lemon trees until the buds 
have united with the stock. When this 
has taken place the limb in each case 
may be covered an inch or two above the 
inserted bud, and then the whole of the 
trunk and the stumps of the limbs which 
remain are covered over witha coat of 
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