OF AXES. 5] 
(fig. 23, b), with its small overgrown part above the 
junction, took the colour and large dimensions of the 
white Belgian (d), which, in hke manner, with its 

Fie. 21.—Adhesion of two distinct stems of oak, or possibly cohesion 
of branches of the same tree. ‘ Gard. Chron., 1846, p. 252. 
larger head above the joining (a), took the colour and 
small dimensions of the red one at and below the 
union (ed). The respective qualities of the two roots 
