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matting for bass) which is wrapped round the bud ; for in that 

 case you will find the incision opened, which very often occa- 

 sions the death of the bud. 



If Nurserymen and Gardeners would give this method a 

 fair trial, and use the same composition as I use for curing de- 

 fects in trees, instead of loam and horse-dung (which binds so 

 bard as to prevent the rain and moisture from penetrating to 

 the graft to moisten the wood and bark), they would find that 

 the grafts would succeed much better. The composition, for 

 this p"arpose, should be rather softer than grafting-clay gene- 

 rally is ; and instead of aplying so large a mass as is gene- 

 rally done of clay, it need not, in most cases, be more than two 

 or three inches in circumference. 



