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one of the large and prominent kind, I had the pleasure to 

 find that the minute buds took freely, whilst the large all 

 failed, without a single exception. This experiment was 

 repeated in the summer of 1815, upon two yearling stocks 

 which grew in pots, and had been placed, during the spring 

 and early part of the summer, in a shady situation under a 

 north wall ; whence they were removed late in July to a 

 forcing house, which I devote to experiments, and instantly 

 budded. These being suffered to remain in the house dur- 

 ing the following summer, produced from the small buds, 

 shoots nearly three feet long terminating in large and per- 

 fect female blossoms, which necessarily proved abortive, 

 as no male blossoms were procurable at the early period in 

 which the female blossoms appeared : but the early forma- 

 tion of such blossoms sufficiently proves that the habits 

 of a bearing branch of the Walnut Tree may be transfer- 

 red to a young tree by budding, as well as by grafting by 

 approach. 



The most eligible situation for the insertion of buds of this 

 species of tree (and probably of others of similar habits) is near 

 the summit of the wood of the preceding year, and of course, 

 very near the base of the annual shoot ; and if buds of the 

 small kind abovementioned, be skilfully inserted in such parts 

 of branches of rapid growth, they will be found to succeed 

 with nearly as much certainty as those of other fruit trees, 

 provided such buds be in a more mature state than those of 

 the stocks into which they are inserted. 



The advantages, which may be obtained in the propaga- 

 tion of other species of trees by procuring buds for inser- 

 tion in a more mature state than those of the stock, are snf- 



