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ceeded in obtaining a valuable variety we can rarely reproduce 

 it from seed, therefore to multiply it we resort to artificial pro- 

 cesses. 



If placed under favorable circumstances every bud upon a 

 tree is capable of producing a new tree like that which it was 

 taken from; the knowledge of this fact makes us able to mul- 

 tiply and disseminate new and desirable varieties with great 

 rapidity. The methods now practiced, grafting, budding, lay- 

 ering cuttings and suckering, or division of the plants; or the 

 production of a tree from a bud, graft, layer or cutting, is the 

 same thing in effect, brought about by different methods, but all 

 trees will not conform to the use of the same methods, else all 

 propagation would be done by cuttings. 



In propagating by cuttings, the cutting is put directly in the 

 ground where it forms roots. The cion and bud is nothing more 

 than a cutting, but is inserted in or upon the wood of a like 



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specie, where it unites with the wood of the stock; the differ- 

 ence is that one draws its support from the ground and the 

 other through the tree to which it unites. In all cases it is a 

 part of the parent plant and may contain one bud or several. 

 The apple, pear, plum and cherry seldom succeed from cut- 

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