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the fame (or at leail with little difference; produced on 

 the new tree, as that of the old one from whence the 



frafT was taken : It is fometiines performed on the 

 ranches of trees, and ma)' be on the roots, a piece 

 being raifed out of the ground for the purpofe. 



If the feeds of fruit were left to grow up to tree? 

 without grafting, they would produce a different kind 

 from that they came from; by chance a better, but 

 jnofl commonly -a worfe. The varieties of fruit we 

 have, were obtained partly from feedling Hocks, with- 

 out grafting, and partly by an accidental difference, 

 that the flock, or foil, may have given. 



Graffng is like planting upon a plant, for though 

 there is a union of the parts, there is in fact little 

 other communication than a root has with the ground. 

 The cion, or bud, draws nourifhment from the flock, 

 but no other than is properly adapted to its own pecu- 

 liar pores, which by a chemical procefs (fuppofe by 

 fermentation in its little bladders, or cells) it alters, fo 

 as to become exclufively its owq. A great variety of 

 fruit is produced by graff-planting from the fame kind 

 of flock, (and that perhaps a mere crabj )\\{i as a great 

 variety of plants are from the fame foil : By this means 

 alfo, fomeforeft, and many ornamental trees and Ihrubs 

 are propagated, and thus their particular varieties pre- 

 fer ved, as in all the variegated forts, See. 



The art of graffing is a very curious difcovery, and 

 though it requires fome ingenuity to perform it, a few- 

 trials may make it familiar, and it will prove an agree- 

 able fource of amufement and fatisfacliom By being 

 able to graff, young trees may be always at hand lor 

 replacing old, or unfucccfsful ones; and the plcafure 

 of obliging a friend from our ffock in this way, is 

 peculiarly gratifying. 



Skill in this ingenious art is clearly beft obtained by 

 feeing the work performed; and at firlt trial, to have 

 an adept at the elbow, would be a great advantage. 

 There are few gardeners, (even by profeflion,) how- 

 ever, 



