3*8 EFFECTS OF THE GRAFTING AND BUDDING OF TREES. 



trouble at last procured his work. It is indeed a book full 

 of most admirable instruction, and though it has but little 

 beyond practical observations on this subject, yet, as far as 

 he proceeds in investigating causes, it is excellent : but here 

 again the want of the opake solar microscope has prevent- 

 ed the possibility of his proceeding farther, and knowing 

 whether the parts did, or did not unite. This- being the ' 

 case, I must trust wholly to myself for the anatomical part, 

 and the consequences arising from them ; but as I shall give 

 a sketch of the exact change made by the uniting of the 

 two branches. I hope my figures will prove the truth of 

 my assertions. 

 Object of graft- The use of grafting and budding is to propagate any 

 ding" 1 U " particular tree: the wood or fruit of which pleases the eye 

 or palate; as the only means we possess of procuring a 

 Why seedling perfect imitation. It is a well known fact, that seeds 



trees are com- . se i(j om produce the exact prototype of the plant from which 

 monly varieties. r . . 



they spring; and the reason is. plain; the tree is only the 



mother of the blossom, but to complete the resemblance, 



it must be impregnated by the stamen of the same plant. 



Now if the wind blows the ripened dust of the stamens 



from a neighbouring tree of the same order, when the 



blossoms of the first are covered with the juice of the 



pistil, the blossoms thus prepared will receive the powder, 



and the consequence will probably be a new variety of fruit, 



if the seed is planted; and not the same fruit which the 



original tree gave. Thus are produced more than half our 



sorts of apples, peaches, and innumerable flowers ; for we 



neglect to examine the origin of the varieties that take place 



in our gardens, or we should continually be able to trace 



them to this source. 



Budding and But in grafting and budding, this cannot be the case, no 



grafting merely resemD i ancc ca n be so exact ; it is indeed merely an increase 



continues the . . . T ■ -A 



same tree. of the tree, from which the scion is taken. Lvery one 



knows, that grafting is taking a shoot from one tree and 

 inserting it into another, in such a manner, that both may 

 unite closely, and become one tree. Mr. Bradley (from 

 gome observations of Agricola) suggests what anatomising 

 the parts first proves, that the stock serves merely as pipes 

 to convey tke mediated nourishment to the scion j that the 



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