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XXXVI. A new and expeditious Mode of Budding. By 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 



Read March 6, 1810. 



Parkinson, in his Paradisus Londinensis, which was 

 published in 1629, has observed,* that the nurserymen of his 

 days had been so long in the practice of substituting one 

 variety of fruit for another, that the habit of doing so was 

 almost become hereditary amongst them : and were we to 

 judge from the modern practice, in some public nurseries, 

 we might suspect the possessors of them to be the offspring 

 of intermarriages, between the descendants of those alluded 

 to by Parkinson. He has, however, mentioned his " very 

 goodfriend,Master John TRADESCANT,"and " Master John 

 Miller," as exceptions: and similar exceptions are, I be- 

 lieve, to be found in modern days. It must always be ex- 

 pected that, wherever the character of the leaf does not ex- 

 pose the error of the grafter, as in the different varieties of 

 the Peach and Nectarine, mistakes will sometimes occur; 

 and therefore a mode of changing the variety, or of intro- 

 ducing a branch of another variety, with great expedition, 

 may possibly be acceptable to many readers of the Horti- 

 cultural Transactions. 



The luxuriant shoots of Peach and Nectarine trees 



* Paradisus Londinensis, page 571. 



