. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. irmly in its place. Em-ploy for this purpose untwisted woollen thread,which, in case you have drawn it somewhat tootight, will, from its elasticity, accommodate itselfto Avhat the sap requires, and prevent strangling. Applications of the above Method of graftings of this sort that can be madeon other shrubs with persistent leaves, besidesorange trees, and especially upon daphnes andmyrtles, will prove completely successful, pro-vided that at the tim
. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. irmly in its place. Em-ploy for this purpose untwisted woollen thread,which, in case you have drawn it somewhat tootight, will, from its elasticity, accommodate itselfto Avhat the sap requires, and prevent strangling. Applications of the above Method of graftings of this sort that can be madeon other shrubs with persistent leaves, besidesorange trees, and especially upon daphnes andmyrtles, will prove completely successful, pro-vided that at the time you graft them these shrubsare in full sap — that is, that their vegetation isin full activity. Strictly speaking, in ornamentalshrubs with persistent leaves, the sap is nevercompletely stationary, as it is in winter withthose that lose their leaves. They have, how-ever, a half repose in winter; after which theirsap begins to flow again with renewed is the most favorable time for grafting them. Grafting a la to the orange, its vital principle is so veryactive that you can, without fear, trust a graft. Fig 6. — Graft k la Pontoise. THE PARLOR GARDENER. 83 quite full of flower buds ready to bloom, to aseedling stock a year or eighteen months graft should be of a diameter nearly equalto that of the stock ; it -will take directly. Thecourse of the sap is not sensibly interrupted, andthe buds will open as if they had remained uponthe shrub from which they were detached. Inall cases, the entire stock above the graft shouldbe removed, so that the portion of the stock be-low the graft shall form merely the lower part ofthe trunk of the tree, whilst all above shall beformed from the graft exclusively. If this sortof grafting, named by the French gardeners graft-ing a la pontolse, were conducted in the open air,the evaporation from the leaves would kill thegraft before it took. It can succeed only whenexcluded from contact with the air. Your orangetr
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