In determining the choice of stocks, the nature of the soil in which the grafted trees are to grow should have full weight.
Fruit trees may be grafted.
But canons regular were in virtue of their origin essentially clerics, and their common life, monastery, rule, and the rest, were something additional grafted on to their proper clerical state.
The lemon is really grown upon a bitter orange tree, grafted to bear the lemon.
Before the end of the war Mexican laws not incompatible with United States laws were by international law supposed to be in force; but nobody knew what they were, and the uncertainties of vague and variable alcalde jurisdictions were increased when Americans began to be alcaldes and grafted English common-law principles, like the jury, on Californian practices.
