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food. Nothing is more proper to furnish this than 

 the stem of a tree in which the sap is in motion ; be- 

 cause sap is moist, and at the same time, is the food 

 of plants ready prepared for them to consume it. 



Hence, if a cutting, or a bud be carefully planted 

 in the stem of a tree, they will grow ; their roots will 

 be insinuated beneath the bark, and form new wood, 

 and so strong an adhesion will take place between 

 them, that no force can afterwards separate them. 



Thus, if you would bud one plant upon another, 

 the plan is this ; it must be done when the sap is most 

 in motion, and when the bark can be easily divided 

 from the wood ; you then cut a narrow slice off the 

 branch which you wish to increase, taking care that it 

 has a well-formed bud upon it ; with a smart jerk, the 

 small quantity of wood that adheres to the slice may 

 be taken off, leaving- nothingf but the bud attached to 

 the bark. Then, with a sharp knife, an incision must 

 be made lengthwise through the bark of the plant in 

 w^hich your bud is to grow, and at the upper end of 

 that incision, a transverse cut, so that the two will 

 together form the letter T. The bark is next to be 

 lifted up on each side of the longitudinal incision, and 

 the bud, with its adhering bark, is to be slipped in. 

 If the whole is then bound up with worsted or matting, 

 a union will take place between the bud and the 

 branch into which it is inserted, and a new plant will 

 be created. 



If you would graft one plant on another, you must 

 follow a different plan ; for grafting is effected with 

 cuttings, and cuttings cannot be so conveniently slipped 



