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The varieties, propagated chiefly for their fruit, are in- 

 creased by budding, grafting, and sometimes by layering. 

 These operations, in our climate, are uncertain and often 

 fail, though this may probably arise from being performed 

 either at an improper season, or without the necessary 

 care and attention. Indeed, the success that the late T. 

 A. Knight, Esq. had in grafting the Walnut* would lead 

 us to think that such was generally the case, as out of 

 twenty-eight instances of grafting, no less than twenty-two 

 succeeded. In this experiment, both the scions and stocks 

 of the last year's wood were employed, and these were 

 allowed to unfold their buds and grow a few days before 

 the operation took place ; the saddle mode of grafting- 

 was that made use of. The most approved and successful 

 mode of budding, and which is the one chiefly adopted 

 upon the Continent, is that called the flute method, in 

 performing which an entire ring of bark, containing one 

 or more buds, is exactly fitted to the upper extremity 



of the stock, which is also denuded of its bark ; should 

 the stock be larger than the ring containing the buds, 

 the ring requires to be slit up, but, if this exceeds 

 the stock, then a small portion requires to be cut out, so as 

 to make it fit, as shown in the accompanying figures. Mr. 



* See Horticultural Society's Transactions, ser. 2. vol. i. p. 216. 



