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side of the strip of bark on which the bud is situated, 

 and at the same time have this strip not less than two 

 inches long and as broad as possible. He describes his 

 mode of grafting walnuts, which does not differ materi- 

 ally from those already giyen. That he has never at- 

 tained any very remarkable results may be inferred from 

 the following : 



"We will add that the 'grafted walnuts* that we 

 offer were grafted expressly for us, regardless of cost, by 

 the most reliable firm to be found in the walnut district 

 in France, through a process discovered several years 

 ago, and which we will briefly describe for the benefit of 

 people who may be inclined to try this new method of 

 grafting very young walnuts. 



" One-year-old seedlings of the size of the little fin- 

 ger, or about one-half inch in diameter at the butt, are 

 selected, the root cut back short enough to permit the 

 planting of the trees in pots of three inches in depth ; 

 the trees, previously to being potted, are grafted with 

 cions exactly of the same size, whip or cleft grafting 

 being used ; the pots are then taken to a hot or propa- 

 gating house, and a glass bell set over them to prevent 

 the outside air getting to the grafts, the temperature 

 of the house being kept day and night, at least for 

 fifteen days, or till the grafting has taken, to 70° F. 

 When the grafts are well taken and growing, the glass 

 bells are removed, and the grafts allowed to grow three 

 or four inches^ before the little grafted trees are set out 

 in nursery rows ; it may be preferable, especially in cer- 

 tain parts of the country, to keep the trees in the 

 pots till the ensuing spring. Forty to fifty per cent 

 of the grafts will succeed, and it is the best that can 

 be done. 



"This mode of grafting the walnut, besides requir- 

 ing a hothouse, needs the care of a skillful person to 

 make it succeed. So are grafted the little trees that we 



