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A new method of grafting by approach has 

 been lately practised, and which deserves notice. 

 The inconvenience of placing or supporting the 

 stocks round the tree intended to be propagated, 

 and the fact, that this mode of grafting is success- 

 ful only because the scion continnes to receive 

 from its parent a part of its support while uniting 

 itself with the stock, suggested the idea that, if 

 the scion received a supply by other means, the 

 junction would as readily take place,. Accord- 

 ingly, a scion is separated entirely, and united by 

 its middle to the stock in the manner of grafting 

 by approach, and its end below the junction is 

 inserted into a small phial of water suspended 

 from the stock. Thus the scion receives from the 

 water what, in the old way, it received from its 

 parent. So readily does the union take place, 

 that it sometimes happens (in the case of Camel- 

 lias particularly) that the lower part of the scion 

 appears to partake so far of the vigour of the 

 stock, that it also forms roots in the phial, and 

 when separated and potted, becomes a plant itself. 

 There is no doubt, but that many hard-wooded 



