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some varieties. These inodeB of grafting can all be more 

 successfully practiced on stocks in pots in green-houses 

 with bottom heat and bell glasses. We have given 

 thus concisely, and, we hope, clearly, the various modes of 

 budding and grafting with which we are acquainted. 

 They may be sufficient to enable the amateur to amuse 

 his leisure hours, though his success may not entirely meet 

 his expectations. Simple as these operations are, they 

 require a kind of skill, and, if we may so call it, sleight-of- 

 liand, which is only attained by constant practice upon 

 a great number of plants. 



