On Grafting the Walnut, Mulberry, $c. ol 



Walnut Trees, of two years old, in garden pots, I raised them 

 up to the bearing branches of an old Walnut Tree, by placing 

 them on the top of poles placed in the earth ; and I grafted 

 them, by approach, with parts of the bearing branches of the 

 old tree. An union took place during the summer, and in 

 the autumn the grafts were detached from the parent stock. 

 The plants thus obtained were planted in a nursery, and, with- 

 out any peculiar care or management, produced both male 

 and female blossoms in the third succeeding spring, and have 

 since afforded blossoms every season. The frost has, however, 

 rendered their blossoms, as well as those of other trees in 

 their vicinity, wholly unproductive during the last three years, 

 and in the spring of 1805, almost wholly destroyed the wood 

 of the preceding year. A similar experiment was made in 

 the same year, but under many disadvantages, on the Mul- 

 berry Tree. I had not any young plants of this tree, and 

 therefore could only make the experiment with scions of one 

 year old ; and of these I had only two, which had sprung 

 from the roots of a young tree, in the preceding year. These 

 were planted in pots, and raised to the bearing branches of 

 an old tree, in the manner I have already described in speak- 

 ing of the Walnut Tree. One of these scions died ; the other, 

 which had but very few roots, succeeded ; and the young 

 grafted tree bore fruit the third year, and has continued an- 

 nually productive. In the last spring I introduced it into my 

 Vinery, where its fruit ripened, in the greatest state of per- 

 fection, in the beginning of June. 



Both the Walnut and Mulberry Tree succeed so ill when 

 grafted, unless by approach, that I can scarcely recommend 

 attempts to propagate them in any other way ; but when they 



