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adopted means of retarding the period of the vegetation 

 of the stocjis comparatively with that of the bearing 

 tree : and by these means I became partially successful. 

 There are, at the base of the annual shoots of the wal- 

 nut a;nd other trees, where these join the year^old wood, 

 many minute buds which are almost concealed in the 

 bark, and which rarely or never vegetate but in the 

 event of the destruction of the large prominent buds 

 which occupy the middle and opposite end of the annual 

 wood. By inserting in each stock one of these minute 

 buds and one of the large prominent kind, I had the 

 pleasure to find that the minute buds took freely, 

 while the large all failed without a single exception." 



From the above and other remarks of Mr. Knight, 

 in the paper read by him, I infer that he kept the stocks 

 in pots stored in a cool place in spring, until he could 

 obtain shoots of the season from bearing trees, and from 

 these minute undeveloped axillary buds for inserting in 

 the stocks. These buds, as he informs us, are inserted 

 in the wood of the preceding season, and near the sum- 

 mit or top. He does not give any directions for holding 

 the buds in place, whether by waxed or plain bass liga- 

 tures ; the former, however, would probably be prefer- 

 able, for the purpose of excluding the air and water. 



Some twenty years later (1838) J. C. Loudon, in 

 "Arboretum Britannicum," etc., refers to the propagation 

 af the walnut as follows : "Much has been written on 

 the subject by French authors, from which it appears 

 that in the north of France, and in cold countries gen- 

 erally, the walnut does not bud or graft easily by any 

 mode ; but that in the south of France and north of ' 

 Italy it may be budded or grafted by different modes, 

 with success. At Metz, the Baron de Tschoudy found 

 the flute method (Fig. 76) almost the only one which he 

 could practice with success. By this mode an entire 

 ring of bark, containing one or more buds, is removed 



