. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERU!AN HUME GARDEN. 441 Fig. sprout, which, being strained oiFa very little from the plant, is bent and pinned down just enough to open the slit and set the tongue bud fairly in the soil, and allow of covering it about one inch and a half deep. See Figiu-e. The hill should be carefully mulched, and watered regularly at evening until the layers are ro
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERU!AN HUME GARDEN. 441 Fig. sprout, which, being strained oiFa very little from the plant, is bent and pinned down just enough to open the slit and set the tongue bud fairly in the soil, and allow of covering it about one inch and a half deep. See Figiu-e. The hill should be carefully mulched, and watered regularly at evening until the layers are rooted. BUDDING AND GRAFTING. Various fancy forest trees and shrubs are budded or grafted, grafting being generally preferred for these, perhaps without good reason. For the mode of grafting, see page 229. The lighter-gTowing kinds of Cactus are often grafted upon, or rather planted in those of stronger growth, by a simple yet curious and successful process. Stocks of suitable strength are raised from cuttings, which root readily if planted in sand after being cut a day or two. The graft is dressed to a thin but quite short wedge; the stock is cut off, and the graft wedge set into the heart of it, in a slit made with the point of a knife, or a bone or wooden wedge, the sides of the stock re- maining uncleft, and, instead of binding, a small wooden skew- er, or a long, slim thorn from a large cactus is then passed through the stock and graft, pinning the latter to its place. In a short time the graft (really the cutting) throws its roots downward through the substance of the stock, and grows finely. The operation of budding ornamental trees, as well as or- anges, &c., among green-house plants, is performed in the com- mon mode, descriljed page 220. Roses also arc budded pre- cisely as fruit-trees, except that some extra care is required in the operation, on account of their comparative smallness, their thominess, and the softer and more stringy natm-e of their bark. All the au
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