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down into the slock, just us a man's giildy tlioug-hts run to 

 his heels and malcc him dance. 



An equally curious but hv no means ridioulfius variety 

 is the golden-leaved laburnum. This is a splendid tree, 

 with leaves of the brightest orange-yellow colour, and 

 makes a most conspicnous feature in the woodlands all the 

 summer through. This is propagated by grafting it on the 

 common laburnum, and when the graft takes and grows 

 there is a good tree formed, and, however \vc may admire it, 

 we are not called upon to arouse the organ of wonder. But 

 it is a different case when the graft does not take. You 

 must know that out of a given number of grafts inserted 

 on suitable stocks a certain proportion will perish. It is 

 with grafts as with seeds — they do not all " come up." 

 Now, generally sjieaking, when a graft fails there is an end 

 of it, and if the stock is left alone it will usually sprout in 

 time and grow in its own way, whate\'er that way ma}' bi'. 

 But it is otherwise in this cas(>, for the common green- 

 leaved laburnnm stock, from which the graft has been re- 

 moved by violence or death, will produce golden leaves of 

 its own — a case of genuine inoculation, There is a golden- 

 leaved jasmine that exercises some such iuRuence when 

 grafted on the green-leaved jasmine; but the cases are not 

 quite parallel. 



There are in cultivation about twenty varieties of 

 laburnum, but none are more beautiful than the common 

 one that may be found in every gai-den. The pendulous 

 variety [L. pendulum) is one of the most distinct, and the 

 sweet-scented {L. nrlnni) and the white-flowered [L. Jin re 

 iilho) are worth the attention of those who have a taste 

 for interesting trees. 



It should never be forgotten that the seeds of the 



