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centre of the stock instead of the side, for you 

 always find them make a considerably bet- 

 ter growth, and the trees are more durable ; 

 therefore, if the graft sends its roots down to 

 the very extremities of the roots of the stock, 

 if either becomes impregnated, it must be the 

 stock and not the scion. 



The same by budding ; if nature had so or- 

 dered it, that the stock should have had any 

 influence on grafting, much more must it have 

 had on budding, where there is nothing left 

 but the mere rind ; yet this small bud has been 

 in no instance ever known to degenerate on 

 account of the stock, if budded on a stock 

 it was fond of. 



What I mean by a bud being fond of a stock, 

 is such stocks as buds and grafts are usually 

 worked on ; this is one very necessary branch 

 of a nurseryman's profession, wlien he has a 

 new fruit, to endeavour to find out such stock 

 as is best suited to its constitution, &c. 



I remember many years back, when quite a 

 boy, a common white jasmine which was grow- 

 ing against the house, and being fond even 

 from my earliest years of trying experiments 

 among trees, I took a bud from a striped jas- 



