How To Preserve Scions

V. 6Í Hntch of Ischia, N. f., vfixo who has. fiiUowed grafting over forty ycars, suys..- 1 cut my soions in Februíiry. I $Uqp take rrsin with a littlc oil ör tflüow -to reduce it, as clear rosin is api io crumble off. Melt t, and whon iiv)ha v ,}ot. .dip the ends cut froin the tree of caoii s-ping Th is se als the pores f the wood, and (hen stand the buts of the-seions QU íhe damp grouud on the bottoiis oí tiic 3el!ar, and tura an empty cask over tboai. In this way they keep fresh the year round. I have soions of spples and poars iu my cullar to-day, that are as fresh as when cut last Feb ruary : aod one year, for an experinient, I kept some over the next winter, and ttheia in A-pril, after being cut sixteen mOD-ths, aud they grew. Gi'üpe cut.tings preparcd in tliia way, and then rolled up in oilcloth paper, might bo broaght iirom C3hili:to New York i.o safety.