2p4 GRAFTING, OR HORTICULTURAL CONVERSION. 



hook," to use their own vernacular; just as we 

 find wild apple, cheny, and pear trees growing 

 along fences, in thickets and all sorts of unex- 

 pected places. 



As a general thing, these fortuitous youth are 

 morally not elected or highly favored, and when 

 mature enough to bear the fruit of characteristic 

 deeds, we say : 



The less of that kind the better. 



But what shall we do with them ? Repression, 

 cutting back, only increases their wild growth. 

 To be sure we can dig them out, root and 

 branch, and destroy them ; and this was society's 

 ancient course with those unruly members who 

 would not grow morally, mentally, and religi- 

 ously in the narrow little mould of the times. 

 But this will not answer now, much as some 

 good people would like to try it.. 



But what shall we do ? Nature teaches us. 



A few feet away from my parsonage-door, a 



