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tie it, If the bud proves to be of good growth, cut the bass ligature 

 oflF, in Marck following always. Then in June cut off the stock just 

 above the bud, with a sharp knife and in the direction from the north 

 or west, on the opposite side of the bud, sloping downward southerly. 

 This cause rain to fall off this slope from the bud if sloped towards 

 the bud the water injures it. 



Mr. Meigs, had an opportunity on one occasion to see the maUce of 

 a villain, disappointed because he had barked his neighbours apple trees 

 in August. Those trees seem to prove that, (such is often seen,) 

 Divine Providence caused the fruit, to be even better than it would 

 have been, without the barking, and a beautiful smooth new bark was 

 found. 



Dr. Underbill remarked that now budding is preferred to grafting 

 in all small stocks. The disappointment felt by those who buy in our 

 market, trees said to have been budded ; but which prove after some 

 years, never to have been, is very severe. It often happens that the 

 nursery men do not know that their uubudded stock are taken to the 

 market by their men ; but it is so! And is an injury not only to the 

 unfortunate buyer to the lionest masters who never bring a false tree 

 to our market. 



The Secretary- read from some of our best authortties, extracts re- 

 lative to grafting. 



" Grafting has been known and practised from the most remote an- 

 tiquity — naturalists have not agreed as to the origin of it. Theophras- 

 tus said that a bird which had swallowed a fruit whole, left the pit in 

 the cavity of a tree where it was rotten, then being watered by rain 

 it grew and so became a tree of a different kind from the stock." — 

 " Pliny says that a farmer wishing to make a palisade in his farm 

 matted the bottoms of his palisade with the trunks of ivy in order to 

 make it stronger and last longer. The effect was that the stakes of 

 the palisade became engrafted with the trunks of the ivy and pro- 

 duced large trees, and that this caused ailention to grafting." 



