GRAFTING 



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A — Saddle Grafting 

 B — Cleft Grafting 

 C-D — Whip Grafting 



the lilac-bud would meet with the same sad fate 

 on a rose-bush. But lilac can very well be grafted 

 on lilac, rose-bush on rose-bush, vine on vine. And 

 one can even go further than this: a peach-bud will 

 flourish on an apricot- 

 tree, a cherry-bud on 

 a plum-tree, and vice 

 versa; for between 

 the members of each 

 of these pairs there is 

 a close and easily dis- 

 cernible analogy. In 

 short, there must be 

 the closest possible 

 resemblance between the two plants if grafting is 

 to succeed. 



"The ancients were far from having any clear 

 idea on this absolute need of likeness in organization. 

 They tell us of grafting the holly with the rose to 

 obtain green roses, the walnut tree with the grape 

 to produce enormous grapes as large as walnuts. 

 In our own time has not the project been seriously 

 considered of grafting a vine shoot on to a mul- 

 berry tree in order to restore vigor to the grape 

 whose roots an underground grub has attacked? 

 Such graftings and others between plants completely 

 unlike have never been successfully undertaken ex- 

 cept in the imagination of those who dreamt them. 



"We have already seen that, grown from seed, 

 our various fruit trees do not, as a rule, reproduce 

 the quality of fruit of the parent stock; an invin- 



