7. 



THE 



ART OF GRAFTING 



BY CHARLES BALTET. 



"You see, sweet maid, vre marry 

 A gentle scion to the "wildest stock; 

 And make conceive a bark of baser kind 

 By bud of nobler race ; this is an art 

 "VvTiich does mend nature ; change it rather • but 

 The Art itself is Nature." — Shakespeare. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



LONDON: 

 MACMILLAN AND CO. 

 1879. 



