hO OF GRAFTING. SECT. VII. 



the fame (or at leafl with little difference) pr@duced on 

 the new tree, as that of the old one from whence the 

 graff was taken : It is fometimes performed on the 

 branches of trees, and may be on the roots, a piece 

 being raifed out of the ground for the purpofe. 



If the feeds of fruit were left to grow up to trees 

 without grafting, they would produce a different kind 

 from that they came from ; by chance a better, but 

 mod commonly a worfe. The varieties of fruit we 

 have, were obtained partly from feedling flocks, with- 

 out grafting, and partly by an accidental difference, 

 that the flock, or foil, may have given. 



Grafting is like planting upon a plant, for though 

 there is a union of the parts, there is in fafl little 

 other communication than a root has with the ground. 

 The cion, or bud, draws nourifhment from the flock, 

 hut no other than is properly adapted to its own pecu- 

 liar pores, which by a chemical procefs (fuppofe by 

 fermentation in its little bladders, or cells) it alters, fo 

 as to become exclufively its own. A great variety of 

 fruit is produced by graff-planting from the fame kind 

 of flock, (and that perhaps a mere crabj']x\& as a great 

 variety of plants are from the fame foil: By this means 

 alfo, fomeforeft, and many ornamental trees and Ihrubs 

 are propagated, and thus their particular varieties pre- 

 ferved, as in all the variegated forts, &c. 



The art of grafting is a very curious difcovery, and 

 though it requires fome ingenuity to perform it, a few 

 trials may make it familiar, and it will prove an agree- 

 able fource of amufement and fatista&ion. By being 

 able to graff, young trees may be always at hand for 

 replacing old, or unfuccefsful ones; and the pleafure 

 of obliging a friend from our flock in this way, is 

 peculiarly gratifying. 



Skill in this ingenious art is clearly befl obtained by 

 feeing the work performed ; and at firfl trial, to have 

 an adept at the elbow, would be a great advantage. 

 There are few gardeners, (even by profeflion,) how- 

 ever, 



