62 On Grafting the Walnut, Mulberry, $c. 



do succeed by other modes of grafting, nearly the same ad- 

 vantages will probably be obtained : the habit of the bearing 

 branch is, however, least disturbed by grafting by approach. 



The Spanish Chestnut succeeds readily when grafted in 

 almost any of the usual ways, and when the grafts are taken 

 from bearing branches, the young trees afford blossoms in 

 the succeeding year : and I am much inclined to think, from 

 experiments I have made on this tree, that by selecting those 

 varieties which ripen their fruit early in the autumn, and by 

 propagating with grafts or buds from young and vigorous 

 trees of that kind, which have just attained the age necessary 

 to enable them to bear fruit, it might be cultivated with much 

 advantage in this country, both for its fruit and timber. 



I have tried similar experiments on many other species of 

 trees, and always with the same result; and I entertain no 

 doubt that the effects of time might be thus anticipated in 

 the culture of any fruit which is not produced till the seedling 

 trees acquire a considerable age. For I am thoroughly con- 

 fident, from very extensive and long experience, that the graft 

 derives nutriment only, and not youth, from the young stock 

 in which it is inserted ; and that with the life of the parent 

 stock, the graft retains its habit and its constitution. 



