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follow ; it will be identical in all respects with the red 

 variety. Or you may take a bud or graft from the sour- 

 est Crab Apple, and insert it into a branch of the sweetest 

 Apple tree you can find, and the shoot which grows from 

 the Crab Apple bud will ever remain a Crab, and will in 

 no way be affected by the sweet Apple stock on which it 

 is growing. Or if the operation is reversed, and the 

 sweet Apple be budded or grafted on the sour, the result 

 will be the same. Its individuality will be in no way 

 changed ; it will be identical with the variety from which 

 it was taken. 



Still further to illustrate this matter of budding or 

 grafting, you may take a Rose-bush having any number 

 of shoots, it makes no difference whether one or a hun- 

 dred. On each shoot you may bud a distinct variety of 

 Hose, of all the colors, forms, or odors embraced in 

 Roses, and each one will hold its distinct characteristic 

 of color, form, or fragrance, be it crimson, white, pink, 

 or yellow in color, double or single in form, or of tea or 

 other odor. Or you may take a young seedling Apple 

 tree, insert a bud of another into it, then, after that bud 

 has made a growth, bud still another variety into that, 

 and so on as many as is desired ; rub off all shoots in the 

 stem that start below, and the variety last budded will 

 hold its individuality unchanged, no matter though the 

 life-sustaining sap flows through the cells of several dif- 

 ferent kinds. You may mark the space occupied by each 

 of the varieties, and cut back to any particular variety, 

 and the fruit that will be prodr.ced by that part, which 

 will then be the top, will hold its character without 

 change. What is true of looses and Apples is, of course, 

 equally true of whatever plant that can be grafted or 

 budded. 



The stock does not in any manner affect the individu- 

 ality of the graft, and I supposed that this was one of the 

 generally accepted axioms of horticulture ; but in a con- 



