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but in the animal kingdom, from the dead and inorganised sub- 

 stance, to the most perfect of beings; we see a continued chain, 

 which reaches from the earth to the skies : the only place where 

 we can with certainty draw a line of division, is between the 

 creature and his great Creator. 

 Mid-Lothian, March 6. 1835. 



In Dr. Lindley's Ladies' Botanij, and Mr. Main's Vegetable 

 Physiology, and, when these have been thoroughly mastered, in 

 Lindley's Introduction and Key, our correspondent will find 

 every thing which he requires. To treat of the natural system 

 of botany at length, in the Gardefier's Magazi^ie, would occupy 

 far too much space; and, given, as it must necessarily be, in 

 detached portions through many Numbers, would only be of 

 real use after the whole was finished ; by which time, probably, 

 the " Young Gardener " would be engaged to fill a place, 

 and no longer possessed of sufficient leisure to be able to 

 devote that degree of attention to the subject which it requires. 

 — Cond. 



Art. III. A nexv Method of grafting, or rather budding, Vines. 

 By Mr. George M'Leish. 



I BEG to submit to your readers a method of grafting, or rather 

 of budding, vines, which I was led to adopt merely from my 

 own ideas of vegetable physiology, and which, I feel confident, 

 will always be attended with success. I am not aware that the 

 method is at all known ; at least, I have never heard of it, and to 

 me, at least, it is quite original. The well-known method of de- 

 tatched grafting I had tried repeatedly, but without success ; and, 

 in endeavouring to trace the cause of this failure, I remembered 

 having seen two new vine-houses, which, under the management 

 of several most distinguished gardeners, had for a series of years 

 been partially accelerated, for the important purpose of furnishing 

 abundance of bearing wood; and such was the failure in both these 

 instances, that, as a last resource, the vines in one of the houses 

 were cut down to the parapet every second year. In this place, 

 the gardener was changed five times in as many years; but, 

 when the fifth made his entree, he was accompanied by a most 

 auspicious companion, success. In the other place, the gardeners 

 were not more successful : the buds broke so irregularly, that 

 only two, or at most three, eyes at the top of the vines appeared 

 with sufficient strength to render their retention tolerable; while 

 the rest of the shoots downwards were as bare as a barber's pole. 

 In both the instances alluded to, I readily perceived that there 

 was a great want of humidity in the atmosphere, and, also, that 



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