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vacancies on the lower parts of full grown 

 fruit trees. The bark and a little of the wood are 

 sloped off for the space of an inch and a half, or two 

 inches ; a slit is then made downwards, and a graft is 

 cut to fit the part, with a tongue for the slit; the parts, 

 being properly joiaed, are tied close and clayed over. 

 When stocks cannot readily be procured, root-grafting 

 may be successfully employed. A piece of the root 

 of a tree of the same genus, well furnished with fibres, 

 is selected, and a graft placed on it, tied and clayed 

 in the ordinary way. Thus united, they are set with 

 care in a trench in the ground, the joining be4ng cov- 

 ered, but the top of the graft being left two inches 

 above ground. 



"The following new mode of grafting," says Dr. 

 Mease, (Dom. Ency.) "the late Mr. A. C. Du PJaine 

 informed the editor, was long kept a secret in France. 

 A limb of willow, three or four inches thick, was bu- 

 ried in a trench deep enough to receive it, and at the 

 distance of every four or five inches, holes were bor- 

 ed, into which grafts were inserted, care being taken 

 to make the bark of the graft, and the limb into which 

 it was inserted touch ; the lower part of the graft was 

 pointed and the bark shaved off. The limb and the 

 grafts were then covered with earth and kept moist, 

 and about two inches of the latter left above the sur- 

 face. In process of time the limb rotted, and the 

 grafts took root. The different grafts were then dug 

 up and transplanted/' In the same valuable publica- 

 tion, Dr. Mease has communicated an account of the 

 mode of Mr. William Fairman, of" extreme-branch graft- 

 ing" upon old decayed trees, "which promises to be 

 of a very great acquisition to those who take pleasure 

 in cultivating fruit." The process is as follows : "Cut 

 away all spray wood, and make the tree a perfect skel- 

 eton, leaving all the healthy limbs ; then clean the 

 branches, and cut the top of each off, where it would 



