Advantage of Grafting Certain Trees * 295 
the earth, so that the whole crop is kept pure and clean : 
no earthy taste will he observed in eating the fruit that 
has been strawed, and the cream which is sometimes soil- 
ed when mixed with strawberries, by the dirt that adheres 
to them, especially in the early part of the season, will 
retain to the last drop that unsullied red and white, which 
give almost as much satisfaction to the eye while we are 
eating it, as the taste of that most excellent mixture does 
to the palate. 
v ' m ‘ *' ,Wr 
No. 60. 
On the Advantages of Grafting Walnut , Mulberry , and 
Chesnut Trees . By Thomas Andrew Knight, Es- 
quire, F. B. S. 8£c.* 
IN the course of very extensive experience in the 
propagation of apple and pear trees, I found that the de- 
tached parts of the bearing branches of old trees of those 
species, when employed as grafts, never formed what 
could with propriety be called young trees : the stocks 
appeared to afford nutriment only ; and the new plants 
retained, in all instances, the character and habits of the 
bearing branches of which they once formed parts ; and 
generally produced fruit the second or third year after 
the grafts had been inserted.! 
I was therefore induced to hope, that the effects of time 
might be anticipated in the culture of several fruits, the 
* Nicholson, vol. 19, p. 175. From the Transactions of the Horticultural So- 
ciety, vol. 1, p. 60. 
-j- Columella appears to have known, that a cutting of a bearing branch did 
not form a young tree; for speaking of cuttings of the vine (semina) he says, 
“ optima habentur a lumbis ; secunda ab humeris ; tertia summa in vite lecta, 
quae celerrime comprehendunt, et sunt feraciora,. sed et quam celerrime 
senescunt.” Be Arboribus , chap. 3 . . 
