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hitherto been made to propagate healthy 

 trees, of those varieties which have long 

 been in cultivation, have been entirely un- 

 successful ; that the grafts grow well for two 

 or three years, after which they become 

 cankerfl and mossy. 



I have not had time or opportunity to 

 know whether the same consequence will 

 follow the young shoots from the trunk and 

 large branches of peeled trees ; but as these 

 shoots are themselves healthy, and the trees 

 from which they are taken rendered heal- 

 thy by the peeling, it is, I think, highly 

 probable that they will continue to grow 

 healthy when grafted upon new stocks,. 



If this should succeed, those finer varie- 

 ties which are said to be wearing out, may 

 be preserved, 



K 



