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XLVIII. Account of two Methods of Grafting. By Thomas 

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



Read June 4,1811. 



So many different methods of grafting are known and prac- 

 tised with success, that it may appear almost useless to point 

 out others. I am, nevertheless, tempted to describe the two 

 following, because the one may be practised with advantage 

 even by the fire-side, and the other in seasons when other 

 modes are not successful. 



Transplanting, many years ago, some Pear-stocks from a 

 seed-bed, of which the soil was soft and deep, I found that 

 the first-emitted roots of many of them descended a foot or 

 more perpendicularly into the earth, before they divided 

 into any lateral ramifications: and as I did not like to 

 seplant the young trees with such an inconvenient length 

 of root, I cut off about six inches from each. The am- 

 putated parts were then accurately fitted and bound, as in 

 splice or whip grafting, to scions of Pear Trees, which were 

 selected as nearly as possible of the same size ; and the roots 

 with their attached branches were deposited in the ground as 

 cuttings, so deep, that the whole of the root, and about an 

 inch of the graft or scion, were covered. The soil was then 

 drawn up with the hoe on each side of the plants, which were 

 placed in rows, so that One bud only of each graft was above 

 the soil, and another just within it. These grafts succeeded 



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