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 CHAPTER XXII. 



OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



Four different Ways of Grafting, ivith Observations. — On 

 using the Composition, instead of Grafting-clay* — Of Bud' 

 ding, with Observations, S^c, 



Grafting is the taking of a shoot from one tree, 

 and inserting it into another, in such a manner 

 as that both may unite closely and become one 

 tree ; this is called, by the ancient writers on 

 husbandry and gardening, incision^ to distinguish 

 it from inoculating, or budding, which they call 

 inserere oculos, 



I have taken a great deal of pains to trace the 

 practice of grafting to its origin ; but without 

 success, as no author that I have perused gives 

 any satisfactory account of it ; it is, however, 

 allowed by all to be very ancient. 



The use of grafting is, to propagate any curious 

 sorts of fruits so as to be certain of the kinds ; 

 which cannot be done by any other method ; for, 

 as all the good fruits have been accidentally 

 obtained from seeds, so of the seeds of these, 

 when sown, many will degenerate, and produce 

 such fruit as is not worth the cultivating ; but 

 when shoots are taken from such trees as produce 

 good fruit, these will never alter from their kind, 



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