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weeks, at least. As soon as the inserted buds 
show signs of vegetation, the stock or branch con¬ 
taining them should be pruned down, so as to 
leave one or two buds or shoots above. If the 
stock is allowed to have a leading shoot above the 
inserted buds, and this shoot should not be short¬ 
ened, the inoculation will not show many signs of 
vegetation for several weeks. 
3. Scallop-Budding consists in cutting a thin 
section of bark and wood, of almost any shape, 
1 from the side of the stock or branch to be budded, 
and in preparing a similar section containing a 
bud which must not be separated from the wood. 
The latter section or shield is then laid on the cor¬ 
responding scallop in the stock, with its upper or 
lower end exactly in contact with the bark of the 
stock, as in spring and summer-budding, with one 
of its sides, at least in contact, as in whip-grafting. 
After this, the ligature is applied in the usual way, 
and the future treatment as above, according to 
the season. The advantage of this mode over 
others is, that it can be performed at seasons when 
the wood and bark do not freely separate ; but the 
operation requires more time, and the buds are 
less liable to take. 
D. Jay Browne. 
Read before the Farmers' Club at the American 
Institute, N. Y., June IS ih, 1844. 
NORMAN HORSE DILIGENCE.— Fig. 46. 
Imported by and the Property of Edward Harris, Esq., Morristown, N. J. 
For the above cut of Diligence, we are indebted 
to Mr. C. N. Bement, one of the editors of the 
Central New York Farmer, who pronounces it a 
spirited and faithful likeness to the original. We 
extract from the Farmer, Mr. Harris’ account of 
this breed, and his importation. 
“ The object of importing the Norman horse had 
been resting on my mind from the year 1831, when 
I passed through France for the first time, and 
witnessed with astonishment the perfect ease with 
which these Double Ponies as they are sometimes 
called in France, trotted along at the rate of six 
and seven miles an hour before the incredible loads 
piled upon and stowed awav in the diligences, and 
then when they stopped to change after a stage of 
from ten to fifteen miles,—without the slightest 
symptom of fatigue—to see the hardy rascals com¬ 
mence biting and kicking each other (they are 
never castrated) amid the sacres and beatings oi 
the conductors, postillions, and stable-boys. These 
scenes repeated at every stage, could not fail to at¬ 
tract the lively attention of any one having the 
slightest penchant for that noble animal the horse. 
From that time I never abandoned the idea of 
transplanting them to my native soil. I saw in 
them the veritable progenitor of the Canada horse 
on a larger scale. I saw in them what I am not 
aware of having seen before or since in any dis¬ 
tinct race of horses, I mean the property of quick 
draught before a heavy load. I also saw or fan¬ 
cied I saw in them the means of speedily raising 
the character of our fine-spun breed of horses, in 
this valuable property, without in the least im¬ 
pairing their courage and actions and at the same 
time impart to them a more docile spirit and a 
perseverance that never flags at the dead-pull » 
