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perfectly well; and I have subsequently repeated the same 

 experiment with equal success upon the Apple, the Plum, 

 and the Peach. In the greater part of these experiments, the 

 roots were perfectly cleansed from mould by washing, before 

 they were fitted to the graft, and were then placed in wet 

 moss, till a sufficient number were ready to be carried to 

 the nursery ; a common dibbler only was employed in plant- 

 ing them ; but the mould was washed into the holes with 

 water, to close it well round the roots, and to supply the 

 place of the clay used in other methods of grafting. 



As plants of the preceding species of trees are readily ob- 

 tained by grafting or budding in the ordinary ways, 1 should 

 scarcely think the account of these experiments worth send- 

 ing to the Horticultural Society; but that it appears not im- 

 probable that many scarce plants, of difficult propagation, 

 may be thus raised by employing the roots of congeners, or 

 even of plants of the same tribe ; for if the graft could be 

 fed, though imperfectly, for a few months, it would probably 

 emit other roots within that period. The Moutan might thus 

 be probably increased by being grafted upon the succulent 

 root of the common Paeony ; and many other scarce plants, 

 by similar experiments. 



The second method of grafting, which I have to recom- 

 mend, is practised upon small stocks almost exclusively in 

 Herefordshire ; but it is never attempted till the usual season 

 of grafting is passed, and till the bark is readily detached from 

 the alburnum. The head of the stock is then taken off, by a 

 single stroke of the knife, obliquely, so that the incision com- 

 mences about the width of the diameter of the stock below the 

 point where the medulla appears in the section, and ends as 



