34 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
CHAPTER YV. 
BUDDING, GRAFTING, ETC. 
OruER methods of propagating than those already given 
will seldom be employed or are necessary for those who grow 
trees for shelter or timber. There will, however, sometimes 
cases occur when it would be quite advantageous even for 
the common farmer to propagate certain trees by other 
methods instead of cuttings and seeds. Trees will often 
vary considerably when grown from seeds. Maple seeds 
will certainly produce Maple trees; still, occasionally, a 
seedling will be found that is quite distinct from all the 
others ; and if it should possess some peculiar and striking 
characteristic which it would be desirable to perpetuate, 
then we must have recourse to some other method of prop- 
agating it than that of seeds, because it would take a long 
time for the new variety to grow to a bearing size; be- 
sides, its seeds would be just as likely to vary, and even 
more so than the seeds from which it was grown. 
When trees have once shown any considerable variation 
from the original type, and the natural or fixed characters 
have changed, they are likely to sport more widely in the 
future generations than in the first one. This principle is 
so well known among horticulturists, that they always 
strive, when operating with a distinct species, to so influ- 
ence it that its seedlings will be different from the parent 
plant. 
