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this practice is detailed in Du Hamel, Miller, 

 and most gardening books. It is of primary 

 importance that the liber, or young bark, of 

 the bud, and that of the stock, should be 

 accurately united by their edges. The air 

 and wet must of course be excluded. 



It is requisite for the success of this opera- 

 tion that the plants should be nearly akin. 

 Thus the Chionanthus virginica, Fringe-tree, 

 ■succeeds well on the Common Ash, Frax- 

 inas excelsior, by which means it is propa- 

 gated in our gardens. Varieties of the same 

 species succeed best of all ; but apples and 

 pears, -two different species of the same genus, 

 may be grafted on one stock. The story of 

 a Black Rose being produced by grafting a 

 common rose, it is not worth inquiring which, 

 on a black currant stock, is, as far as I can 

 learn, without any foundation, and is indeed 

 at the first sight absurd. I have known the 

 experiment tried to no purpose. The rose 

 vulgarly reported to be so produced is merely 

 a dark Double Velvet Rose, a variety, as we 

 presume, of Rosa centifolia. Another report 

 of the same kind has been raised concerning 

 the Maltese Oranges, whose red juice has 



