296 GRAFTING, OR HORTICULTURAL CONVERSION. 



I hope to make on the unregenerate world at 

 large ? 



Not far off, there was a tree of large, splendid 

 ox-hearts. Cutting a scion or twig, four inches 

 long, of the preceding summer's growth, from 

 this, I carefully grafted the main stem of the 

 child of nature ; but made it a point to leave a 

 few little branches on which the young blocd 

 (sap, I should say) could expend some of ill 

 superabundant vitality. 



Here is another point where reformers bring 

 in their everlasting repression. Even when they 

 give some irrepressible young sinner good 

 wholesome work to do, they insist on his doing 

 that and nothing else. It is the same as if they 

 required that the old life of the tree should cease 

 at once, and every drop of sap go into the graft. 

 It can't do it, and it won't. Leave some little 

 branches to grow with the graft a year or so, 

 gradually pruning them out, and throwing the 



