CHAPTER XII. 



OF PROPAGATION BY BUDDIN& AND GEAFTING. 



These operations consist in causing an eye or a cutting of 

 one plant to grow upon some other plant, so that the two, by 

 forming an organic union, become a new and compound 

 individual. The eye, in these cases, takes the name of bud, 

 the cutting is called a scion, and the plant upon which they are 

 made to grow is named the stock. 



Propagation by eyes and cuttings is, therefore, the same as 

 budding and graftiag, with this important difference, that in 

 the one case the fragments of a plant are made to strike root 

 into the inorganic soil, and to grow " on their own bottom," as 

 the saying is, while in the other they adhere permanently to 

 living organic matter. In like manner, the operation of 

 inarching, or causing the branch of one plant to remain 

 attached to its parent, and at the same time to grow upon the 

 branch of another tree, is analogous to layering. 



The objects of these operations are manifold. Many plants, 

 such as the Pear and the Apple, will bud or graft freely, but 

 are difficult to strilte from cuttings. Species which are 

 naturally delicate become robust when " worked " on robust 

 stocks ; and the consequence is a more abundant production of 

 flowers and fruit: thus the more delicate kinds of Vines 

 produce larger and finer grapes when worked upon such 

 vigorous sorts as the Syrian and Nice. The Double Yellow 

 Eose, which so seldom opens its flowers, and which will not 

 grow at all in many situations, is said to blossom abundantly, 

 and grow freely, when worked upon the common China Eose. 

 {Hort. Trans., v. 370.) One plant may be made to bear a 



