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Show POTATOMATOES, How the Tomato May Be Grafted Upon Up-on the Potato. Yon recently published nn article on BraWnu tho tomato on the potato. WW you kindly describe tho process? I desire- to try the experiment, writes a. correspondent of the Country Clem tlewan, and that Journal replies! "In grafting tho tomato on the potato, pota-to, or tho potato on tomato or Jn ma-klnif ma-klnif any other Rraft of similar herbaceous herba-ceous plants, the simpler mothods aro preferred. Tho saddle graft nnd tho aptlM graft aw tho ones 'most com-mouly com-mouly tscd. Tho snllco graft Is mado by Mraply cuUlhg tho scions a smooth nlantihg cut. Ttio stock Is eut In tho same way nnd the two member ore tied together with their faces Joined, in H ! 7,..' Tw KfMlf .ef (graft. 1 .'.' -i la iVm to 'swriba 'h raautts. st l dealrabrs to, iutve the grafts made of rAthstr tmr tHmf"'tfuk a havo only jfrlaly hteh(MftiJJn ordr to ga a proper Union ag-hls sort p( ttasna, It Is Hecefrt''th cut bo al with a .vary sharp haKe.-profsm ably with. ,a rasor. The two parts aro then ratbr tenderly Joined together togeth-er Uslaa: very soft chtth bandages rn raolatanad raa. It Is dealrabla furthermore fur-thermore to cwver h grafted pam with a ball Jar or hand glaaa of aorae-sort aorae-sort for a law itay In oraar to prevent too raidd evapatton. If K la left ok peaad to tha, opart air, especially f tha 'atatoaphiwa la rather dry, tha selos daa mtt aad wlUs ao badly that It aaaaot rawer. The aad4(a graft It wade Wy owtting tha stoak wedga sliapad, whlkj tha saltm is cot wsith a ysard slit o that It wtll at dowjc orar tha wastga of that aleak. Tha rel of the procaw is eatrlad out exactly at already deac'rlbad for tha avtlee gMft |