136 Upon the Propagation of the Walnut-Tree. 



ficient to deserve some attention, and are not, I believe, at 

 all known to gardeners and nurserymen. The mature bud 

 takes immediately with more certainty under the same ex- 

 ternal circumstances : it is much less liable to perish dur- 

 ing winter ; and it possesses the valuable property of rarely 

 or never vegetating prematurely in the summer, though it 

 be inserted before the usual period, and in the season when 

 the sap of the stock is most abundant. I have, in different 

 years, removed some hundred buds of the Peach Tree from 

 the forcing-house to luxuriant shoots upon the open wall; 

 and I have never seen an instance in which any of such buds 

 have broken and vegetated during the summer or autumn ; 

 but when I have had occasion to reverse this process, and to 

 insert immature buds from the open wall into the branches 

 of trees growing in a Peach-house, many of these, and in some 

 seasons all, have broken soon after being inserted, though at 

 the period of their insertion the trees in the Peach-house had 

 nearly ceased to grow. The result was, in both the prece- 

 ding cases, in opposition to my expectations ; but it appears 

 necessarily to have been occasioned by the mature bud hav- 

 ing naturally sunk into a state of repose preparatory to its 

 long winter sleep, previously to its having been removed ; 

 and by the more excitable state of the powers of life in the 

 bud taken from the open wall. 



If the mature buds of the Peach Tree, when taken from 

 the forcing-house, contain blossoms, these may be carried a 

 great distance, and still afford fruit in the following spring. 

 I have thus readily obtained fruit from blossoms sent me 

 from the vicinity of London ; and I entertain no doubt of 

 the practicability of obtaining fruit from blossoms sent from 



