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APPLICATION OF PEINCIPLES. 



buds of one plant to anotter, so as to obtain flowers 

 or fruit from them immediately. He thus fixed on 

 the Wild Eose the flower-buds of Garden Eoses, 

 "and these buds, being abundantly supplied with 

 nutriment, afforded much finer roses than they would 

 have done had they retained their natural situation." 

 He repeated many similar experiments upon the 

 Pear and Peach trees with similar success ; but, in 

 the case of the Pear, he found that if the buds were 

 inserted earlier than the end of August or begin- 

 ning of September, they became branches and not 

 flowers. 



The manner in which these operations may be 

 practised is exceedingly various, and an abundance 

 of fanciful methods have been devised, for an account 

 of which the reader is referred to Thouin's Mono- 

 grapliie des Qreffes ; to the article "Grefie" by the 

 same author, in the Nouveau 

 Cows complet d' Agriculture, 

 &c., edition of 1822 ; to Lou- 

 don's Encyclopedia of Garden- 

 ing, part ii. ; and to the Oar- 

 dener's Magazine, vol. x. p. 

 305. I shall only here de- 

 scribe the commoner and more 

 important methods. 



Budding consists in intro- 

 ducing a bud of one tree, with 

 a portion of bark adhering 

 to it, below the bark of ano- 

 ther tree. In order to effect 



