The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . follows:— About the month of February or March, just before theplants begin to grow, is the most favorable time to may be safely done in August, if more convenient; but theplants are not so well able to bear rude winter treatment asthose inarched in March. To the amateur, March is deci-dedly the best time. The operation is very simple. Select a good healthy stock, and pare off? the bark and wood about two inch-es in length, and about the twelfthof an inch in thickness. Securethe plant
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . follows:— About the month of February or March, just before theplants begin to grow, is the most favorable time to may be safely done in August, if more convenient; but theplants are not so well able to bear rude winter treatment asthose inarched in March. To the amateur, March is deci-dedly the best time. The operation is very simple. Select a good healthy stock, and pare off? the bark and wood about two inch-es in length, and about the twelfthof an inch in thickness. Securethe plant, so that it will not beeasily moved, within a suitabledistance of the branch intendedto be inarched, and then proceedto cut away the bark and wood tocorrespond with the incision madein the stock; fit the two partstogether, being careful that thebarks exactly join, and bind themfirmly with strong woollen yarn,or bass matting, {Jig. 30.) At-tend duly to the watering of theplants, and, in two months, they will be united together. Thebranch, however, should not be cut off at once. At the end26*. Fig. 30 Camellia, showing themode of inarching. 306 The Camellia ; its Propagatio7i. of this time, the shoot may be partially severed close to thebase of the inarching, and, in three or four weeks, it may beseparated from the parent plant. Their after-treatment is thesame as the old plants, unless they should show signs of nothaving been well united, when they should be placed in aclose frame until the union is complete, GRAFTING. Grafting is the most rapid mode of increasing camellias,and is generally practised when the object is to secure a stockof some new and valuable variety, as every bud will make aplant. In the hands of those who have not some skill, andwho are not willing to devote considerable care upon the plants,grafting will be an uncertain method of propagation. Theoperation may be performed at two seasons, viz.—^just beforethe plants begin to grow, in February—and after
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