114 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 



Grafting is accomplished by taking a portion 

 from one plant and inserting it into an opening 

 in another, in such a manner that they will 

 unite and grow together. The cut branch is 

 called the graft or scion^ and the tree into 

 which it is inserted, the stock. Plants of the 

 same family can all be grafted indiscriminateiy 

 into one another, a circumstance which the 

 Dutch florists take Advantage of, for they make 

 different species and colors of roses grow on one 

 trunk, and thus produce a beautiful effect. It. 

 is principally done for the sake of altering the 

 flavor and size of fruits. We might continue 

 this subject some time, even to the multi- 

 plication of plants by seed in all the various 

 methods now used for that purpose ; but you 

 can pursue this part at your leisure tg much 

 better purpose. 



L. I heard a beautiful thought yesterday that 

 struck me very much, which was that no child 

 has so richly ornamented a cradle as the seed 

 when reposing in the recesses of the flower. 



E. Beautiful as it is true ! and the germ that 

 is excited to action loses this cradle ; but, as we 

 have come again to the seed and flower, the 

 beautiful will give way for a time to the won- 



