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brought to a high state of perfection ; the temperate and humid cli- 

 mate of several districts, seems admirably adapted to them. In 

 Lancashire, where the greatest number of new varieties have been 

 obtained, it is cultivated in greater perfection than any part of Brit- 

 ain. Many of these fine sorts have been introduced into this coun- 

 try, and although they have not come up to the size they have 

 attained in England, yet they have been grown sufficiently large and 

 fine to recommend them to general cultivation. Mr, Walker has 

 twice received the premium of the Mass. Hort. Society for the 

 largest and finest varieties ; his hints on pruning are highly valuable, 

 and we would recommend a careful perusal of his communication ; 

 the sorts he enumerates, are nearly all to be had in this vicinity. — 

 Conds. 



Art. III. On Budding trees and shrubs ; by the Conductors ; to 

 which is added the different modes of budding ; and of hei-baceous, 

 or summer grc(fting, extracted from Loudon's Gardene?'' s Magazine. 



The propagation and multiplication of the different species and 

 varieties of trees, shrubs and plants, especially kinds of delicate 

 growth, is, we believe, quite imperfectly understood, in this country. 

 The common methods of grafting and budding have long been in 

 practice, as almost the only means of increasing plants, unless it 

 were those which propagate easily from cuttings, suckers, or division 

 of the root. We have lately observed in some of the nurseries 

 which we have visited, several methods in practice which were quite 

 new to us, and which we should think, from the success attending 

 the practice, would, if become extensively known, be the means of 

 greatly facilitating the multiplication of many delicate kinds, which it 

 has been found exceedingly difficult to increase to any extent. 



With trees, the common method of grafting is generally adopted, 

 and in budding, the old system is almost universally pursued. Very- 

 few attempts have been made to render practicable and successful, 

 many of the new and more recent methods, laid down in most 

 horticultural books, more particularly those in use by the French, 

 who far excel even the English horticulturists in the multiplication 

 of plants ; this is owing to their knowledge in vegetable physiology, 

 and to the various experiments which they are continually making 

 for the discovery of some new method. 



The following article we have extracted from Loudon's Magazine, 

 with the hope that it will suggest some new ideas, as well as present 

 some new methods upon budding and herbaceous grafting, which 

 will not fail to be of great benefit to individuals, as well as to the 



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