SMALL BUCKEYE. 



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taken with the hand. The root, he says, is used as a substitute for soap in 

 washing woollen clothes. 



It has been recommended to engraft this species into the points of the shoots 

 of the common horse-chesnut, of twenty or thirty years' growth, care being 

 taken afterwards, once or twice every year, to rub off all the buds from the stock 

 as soon as they appear, so that the entire force of the plant may be directed to 

 the nourishment of the scions. 



