Grafting

Sonie truits are more diihcult to grait tbiin the apple and peur, but if it bo done suiSciontly early in the spring, the plum may be so treat.ed very suocenst'ully ; tho poaoh is rarely gratted ftt the North, but it succeeds at the South ; this fruit is usually propagatod by that form of grafting calleil budding. Altbough fruit -trees are grafted with scious o{ ripenod wood, thero are sonie treos which wiU only succeed whon green wood is used for both scion and stock ; this kind of grafting is callud herbaoeous. Many evargreons can bo graftod in the ordniary way, but the pines only succeed with herbaceous grafting, and the saine may bo said of soine nut-bearing trees. Ornamental treos of various kinds are propagated by grafting, eapooially where it is desirod to perpetúate some individual peculiarity, such as a pendant 01 weeping habit, or foliage of an unusual shaiJö or color. Soine woeping trees which are naturally low, as tho weeping beech, ash, and poplar, form olegaut specimens whon grafted upon a stook oight or ten feot high. Among ornamental treea and shrubs grafting is re sorted to as the most rapid means of propagation ; sometiines a variety cannot be multiplied readily from cuttings, but can bo grafted upon some related stock that wiU grow rapidly. The choicer species of clematis, now so much prized as ornamental climbers, take root with great difficulty, while some of the older kinds strike root freely. Tho florist grows these from cuttings, and grafts the more difücult subject on thoirroots. The fine doublé camellias wil! not grow from cuttings, buit are propagated by grafting upon the single kinds which readily do so. Epiphylluum and other trailing cactuses mako fine plants by grafting them upon a stout stem of Cereu triangularía, or one of the pereskias. Successful grafting of the apple upon the maple, the rose upon the black ourrant, and the like, is impossiblo, although instances of it are often narrated.