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OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



What I mean by a bud being fond of a stock, 

 is such stocks as buds and grafts are usually 

 worked on: this is one very necessary branch of 

 £ nurseryman's profession, when he has a new 

 fruit, to endeavour to find out such stock as is 

 best suited to its constitution, &c. 



I remember many years back, when quite a 

 boy, a common white jasmine which was growing 

 against the house, and being fond even from my 

 earliest years of trying experiments among trees, 

 I took a bud from a striped jasmine, and budded 

 a branch of the green ; the bud grew, and what 

 shoots put forth below the bud, most of them 

 became blotch leaved ; this is a proof the bud or 

 graft must have an effect on the 6tock. 



There are other modes of grafting, but which 

 are little noticed for fruit trees, except when the 

 trees are very large, and as it will not be foreign 

 to the present work I will mention them. 



First, rind grafting ; this is principally prac- 

 tised on large trees. After cutting off the 

 branch of the tree (if with a saw it should be 

 made smooth with a knife) cut a slit in the rind, 

 about two inches from the top where it was cut 



