Ordinary Veneer-grafting is principally employed for propagating various trees and evergreen shrubs, either in spring or autumn, the former preferred. The scion should be well ripened, either of the previous or current year, according to the time it is inserted, and the stock must be in a state of activity. In an evergreen scion, the leaves from the top are not removed. It must be cut with an even splice-cut, about 1in. long, and fitted on the side of the stock previously prepared by having just the same quantity of bark, as far as the first layers of the alburnum, removed that the size of the cut portion in the scion requires. Both parts are then fitted without a cleft or incision being made in the wood; and, after being tied closely with a woollen or cotton bandage, are placed in close frames, with or with-out grafting wax. The stock should not be headed at first; when the parts have properly united, it may be gradually removed. This method answers well for Rhododendrons.