60 DIFFERENT MODES OF GRAFTING. 



as clearly as possible, I will give my general 

 opinion on the subject. 



It is necessary sometimes to convey our 

 ideas (particularly in writing where it is subject 

 to every criticism) as plainly as possible ; I shall 

 therefore commence from the seed of the stock. 



In the first place, when the seed first spears, 

 (say the Crab) its spear grows downwards, (the 

 same by a common bean or pea) perhaps two 

 inches before we see the green seed leaf above 

 ground, this shews that the fund of vegetable 

 matter above ground, must be filtered through 

 the root, for without the root the tree cannot 

 grow, but the root might exist for some time, 

 although the head was cut down ; I am there- 

 fore most decidedly of opinioti, that the stock 

 in some degree partakes of the nature of the 

 scion which is grafted on it ; for if we look at 

 the nature and constitution of a tree, and from 

 practice mark its general progress, there can- 

 not be an existing doubt, that the roots, veins, 

 fibres, or whatever they may be called, which 

 strike from the scion into the stock, must take 

 root and run downwards, and that to the very 

 extremity where the sap flows ; this I am fur- 

 the convinced of by putting the graft on the 



