HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;—GRAFTING 
Many other kinds of grafts are in use by 
horticulturists, but Mr. Burbank considers 
these two quite sufficient. Budding, which is 
the placing of the bud of the graft or cion 
underneath the bark of the parent or host 
tree, he very seldom uses. 
Some years since, a profound discussion was 
carried on in England over grafting, the oppo- 
nents of it claiming that it was always a make- 
shift, often a fraud; that it was, in effect, only 
a kind of adulteration; that any fruit tree that 
would not succeed on its own roots should go 
to the rubbish heap; that grafted trees are 
coddled, while own-rooted trees are in all 
ways infinitely better, healthier and longer- 
lived. It seems quite enough to say in this 
connection that the man who has carried on 
the blending of tree and cion upon a scale of 
greater extent than any other man finds graft- 
ing not only eminently successful but impera- 
tive. One single series of experiments carried 
on for so many years and on so vast a scale as 
Mr. Burbank’s experiments is sufficient to dis- 
prove many theories and to overturn many 
conclusions. 
But there remains something else of still 
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