

SECTION II. 



INDIRECT MODE OF MULTIPLYING, BY GRAFTING 

 FROM THE ORIGINAL INTO OTHER TREES. 



A graft is either a scion (which is the same 

 thing as a twig-cutting,) or a bud (which is 

 the same thing as a bud-cutting.) 



Grafting consists in causing a scion or a bud 

 to grow upon a limb or the trunk of a tree, in- 

 stead of taking root directly in the ground. 

 The artificial tree thus produced, is said to be 

 a worked, or more properly a grafted tree. A 

 defect in the language compels us to use the 

 term graft and its derivatives, in a specific as 

 well as a generic sense. Thus to graft means, 

 commonly and specifically, to scion ; generic- 

 ally it means either to scion or to bud.* Were 

 it our province to show how words instead of 

 trees may be multiplied, we should be tempted 

 to enrich the ' phraseology of horticulture, by 

 endeavoring to introduce into good usage the 



* The French employ the word greffe (graft) in this same gen 

 eric sense, as a term including both grafting and budding. 



