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while young, the routine of grafting is reduced to cutting a 

 slice off the two barks to be united, bringing their naked 

 surfaces in contact, and binding them together till the adhesion 

 is complete.. No doubt ripe-wood grafting answers very well 

 for many purposes, and we do not in any way question its 

 advantages under certain circumstances. But most certainly 

 herbaceous grafting is the more natural, is more conformable 

 to true theory ; and when it can be practised should be in- 

 variably employed. All "propagators" of plants are aware of 

 this, and their results are not uncommonly a marvel to the 

 uninitiated. 



In order to secure success in herbaceous grafting, the scion 

 and stock, being pared so as to fit together accurately, are 

 firmly bound to each other, without being crushed; parts in 

 full vegetation, and abounding in sap, are always chosen for 

 the operation, such as the upper parts of annual shoots, near 

 the terminal bud ; perspiration is diminished by the removal of 

 some of the leaves of both stock and scion, and by shading; 

 and by degrees, as the union becomes secured, buds and leaves 

 are removed from the stock, in order that all the sap possible 

 may be impelled into the scion. This method, if well 

 managed, succeeds completely in about thirty days, and is 

 useful as a method of multiplying lactescent, resinous, and hard- 

 wooded trees, which refuse to obey more common methods. 

 Baron de Tschudy succeeded in this way in working th& 

 Melon on the Bryony (both Cucurbitaceous plants), the 

 Artichoke on the Cardoon (both Cynaras), Tomatoes on Potatoes 

 (both Solanums), and so on. The following account of 

 managing Coniferse, where herbaceous grafting is used, is taken 

 from the Gardeners' Magazine, vol. ii. p. 64., and sufficiently 

 explains the practice. 



" The proper time for grafting Pines is when the young 

 shoots have made about three quarters of their length, and are 

 stm so herbaceous as to break like a shoot of Asparagus. 

 The shoot of the stock is then broken off about two inches 

 under its terminating bud; the leaves are stripped off from 

 twenty to twenty-four lines down from the extremity, leaving 

 however, two pairs of leaves opposite, and close to the section 



