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different variety upon every branch, as has been seen with 

 Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, and Cacti. {Gard. Chron., 1844, 119, 

 313.) The pecuKar qualities of some plants can only be pre- 

 served by working : this is especially the case with certain 

 kinds of variegated Eoses, which retain their gay markings when 

 budded, but become plain if on their own bottom. {lb. 492.) 

 Fruit may be obtained from seedling plants by these processes 

 much earlier than by any others, the quality of seedling fruit- 

 trees may be ascertained in two or three years instead of twenty 

 or thirty, and thus long and objectless expectation may be 

 avoided : indeed, Mr. Knight ascertained that it is possible to 

 transfer the blossom-buds of one plant to another, 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, afibrded much 

 finer roses than they would have done had they retained their 

 natural situation." He repeated many similar experiments 

 upon the Pear and Peach-tree 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 beginning of September, they became 

 branches and not flowers. 



The modes in which these operations may be practised are 

 exceedingly various, and an abundance of methods (often 

 fanciful) have been devised, for a complete account of which the 

 reader is referred to Thouin's Monographie des Greffes; to the 

 article " Greffe " by the same author, in the Nouveau Cours 

 complet d' Agriculture, &c., edition of 1833; to Loudon's 

 Encyclopcecka of Gardening, part ii. ; to the Gardeners' 

 Magazine, vol. x. p. 805, and to future pages of the 

 present work. 



Budding consists in introducing a bud of one tree, with a 

 portion of bark adhering to it, below the bark of another tree. 

 In order to effect this, a longitudinal incision is made through 

 the bark of the stock down to the wood, and is then crossed at 

 the upper end by a similar cut (Fig. XLIII., a), so that the 

 whole wound resembles the letter T. Then from the scion is 

 pared off a bud with a portion of the bark (Fig. XLIII., b), and 



