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Diplacus pumiceus.
W AL 623 W A L
" Tlie shoot to be grafted must be
Edwardsia graiidiHora and microphylla; cut above the place where a yoiiiig
Erythrina crysta-galli ; Eutaxia inyrti- shoot is pushing; this shoot must be
folia.
preserved, and the scion must be placed
Grcvillea rosmarinifolia.
opposite to it, being fitted in the man-
Hibbcrtia volubilis.
Jiisininuni granditlorum, and umbellaner
of whip-grafling, care being taken
that the inner barks coincide. When
tuin.
the buds of the scion begin to swell, the
Keiinedya lilacina, longiracemosa, and point of the shoot left opposite on tlie
ovata.
Lagerstra;mia indica; Linum trigyniura.
stock must be pinched ; and when the
gralt has tully burst into leat', and is
JMalva creeana ; Maneltia bicolor; Marianthus
cjeruleo-punctatus ; Mimosa
consequently in a condition to appro-
priate the whole of the sap, the shoot
prostrata.
Olea fragrans.
Passillora alata, cxrulea, cajrulea race-
mosa, and inayani ;
Plumbago capen-
sis ; Polygala cordifolia and grandiflora;
Punica granatum.
Rhodocliiton volubile.
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on the stock may be then dispensed
with.
" The scions should be taken ofT in
March, and their ends laid in the ground
till required tor use, as above men-
tioned." Gard. Chron.
Soil.—It prefers a deep loam, though
will succeed on all light moderately
| it ISchinus niolle; Siphocampyllus bicolor
; Sollya heteropliylla and liniaris ; fertile soils, provided they are well
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Swainsonia coronilla;folia.
drained.
Tacsonia mollissima and pinnatistipula. Flanlin^. — Walnut trees should
W.VLNUT, EiVGLlSH. Julians regia. never be planted nearer to each other
Varieties.—Common Duck Nut ; Ha- than sixty feet. They require no
tif; Higlitlyer; Double; Tardif; York- pruning.
shire. Of these Highflyer and Yorkshire Preserving the Fruit.—It is ripe in
are best. London Hart. Sac. Catalogue.
Propagation by Seed.—Sow in drills
October, and should be allowed to hang
upon the tree until the outer covering
twelve inches apart and two inches and begins to crack. In this state, when
a half deep, and the nuts six inches the tree is shaken, many of the walnuts
apart. This may be done in October, as they fall will roll out of the husk.
or the nuts preserved in dry sand until These should be gathered into a basket,
February. They will come up the same separate from those that retain their
spring, and, by the end of summer, the covering ; the latter should be laid aside
young plants will be half a foot or more for a few days, until the husks burst,
high, which, after having two years' and they can be taken out with ease.
growth in the seed-bed, plant out in the The great object is to prevent them
nursery. Previously, when taken up, from becoming mouldy; they should,
shorten their tap roots ; but preserve therefore, be wiped clean and dry, and
their tops entire, and plant them in laid on a shelf, in a dry place, where
rows two feet and a half asunder, and they can have a free current of air, until
about eighteen inches distant in each all tendency to mouldiness is overcome.
row. Here thev are to remain a few Great care must, however, be taken that
years, training them with single stems, they are not over dried, for that will
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till five or six teet high, then transplant cause shriveling. When sufficiently
them where they are to remain. dry they should be put into boxes ia
Those intended principally as timber layers, alternately with bran, fine dry
trees, as well as to bear fruit, should be sand, or shreds of cloth, and
always planted out for good when from use in a cool dry situation.
kept fi>r
By this
four to live feet high ; or, if the nuts
were planted at once where the trees
means they will retain their moisture
and flavour, and the film will with ease
peel oir. Gard. Cliron.
Talcing the Fruit.—There is an ungallant
distich which says
are designed to remain, without transplanting,
they would assume a quicker
and stronger growth.
By Grafting.—Mr. Knight first succeeded
in this operation, and the following
directions accord with his
mode :
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'•A woman, spaniel, and walnut tree,
The limier are, ilie more well thrash'd they
be.-'
But in the third instance most certainly