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hand, the graft, and all produced by it, retains 

 the nature of its parent plant as perfectly un- 

 changed as if it had continued to form part of 

 it. Owing to this law, results the most curious 

 and precious are easily obtained in horticulture. 

 Varieties, and fugitive sub-varieties, which it is 

 impossible to reproduce by sowing, difficult even 

 to preserve by slips, are fixed and propagated 

 indefinitely. 



Survey of Grafts that are possible. 

 That I may not have to repeat, I will remark 

 now, ladies, that the domain of grafting, the 

 extent to which successful grafting is possible, 

 is very great ; so great that it has not yet been 

 completely explored. You know, as every body 

 does, that fruit trees and roses are grafted. I am 

 going to have the pleasure of making you graft, 

 in your portable greenhouse, oranges and camel- 

 lias, wherewith to furnish your balcony garden 

 when it shall come to be established. I am going 

 also to make you plant a simple and modest 

 potato in a box, that you may have the pleasure 

 of grafting on its stalks shoots of tomatoes. 



