GRAFTING AND BUDDING 



Short Cuts to Quick Tests 



NOWADAYS we hear of some remarkable 

 experiments in the grafting of animal tis- 

 sues, which strongly appeal in certain re- 

 spects to those who have long experimented in 

 the grafting of vegetable tissues. 



The experiments made by Dr. Alexis Carrel, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, are of 

 particular interest. It appears that Dr. Carrel 

 has devised a new method of suturing arteries. 

 iWith such a process, the plant experimenter of 

 course has no concern, .for the vital juices of 

 plants are not transmitted in any such definite 

 channels as the arteries and veins of animals. But 

 in dealing with animal life the arteries are all 

 essential, and the process de\ased by Dr. Carrel 

 enabled him to perform grafting experiments 

 such as no physiologist or surgeon had heretofore 

 found feasible. 



All this is so fully in keeping with the familiar 

 experience of the plant experimenter that it had 



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