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was thus much sooner ascertained. These make compara- 

 tively dwarfish trees, when viewed beside those that arc 

 ungrafted. 



In a few cases, we perceived, what had not escaped Mr 

 Van Mons, tliat where the new seedling kinds had been 

 grafted on branches of trees of well-known old varieties,, 

 in place of young stocks, the engrafted branches were 

 healthy and clean, while the other branches of the same 

 trees were cankered and foul ; facts which seem to illustrate 

 and confirm Mr Knight's doctrine as to the limited dura- 

 tion of the vigour of fruit-trees. 



We here saw one of the most uncommon efforts in the 

 art of grafting, that of inserting an entire tree on the stump 

 (souche) of another. A neighbour having, in the spring 

 season, cut down an apple-tree, about fifteen feet high, 

 which Mr Van Mons considered as a desirable kind and 

 a good healthy tree, he immediately selected a stock of si- 

 milar dimensions, and, cutting it over near the ground, 

 placed on it, by the mode of peg-grafting, the foster-tree ; 

 supported the tree by stakes ; and excluded the air from 

 the place of junction, by plastering it with clay, and after- 

 wards heaping earth around it. The experiment succeed- 

 ed perfectly ; the tree becoming, in the course of the second 

 summer, nearly as vigorous as ever. 



The garden is bounded or one side by the buildings be- 

 longing to some kind of manufactory. One of the favou- 

 rite new varieties of pear-trees, the Diel, is here trained 

 against the wall : it has borne, for several years past, about 

 a hundred fine large fruit every season; and it now looks 

 extremciy well. While we were admiring this tree, some 

 . wilh their work-baskets, passed through the garden; 

 anfd we learned, that all the people belonging to the manu- 

 tualh use it as a thoroughfare; yet Mr Van 



