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Article XI. 



• On the Grafting Crah-Stocks, White-'thornsy i^c, 

 with Apples and Pears, 



. Gentlemen, 



TTAVING had a pleafure in grafting, I fonie 

 •*- ^ years fince praclifed it upon fome forward 

 ftems, in a layer of crab-thorn, the fide of a new in- 

 clofure, which layer had been laid in about three 

 years before j thefe ftems I grafted with divers fpecies 

 of apples, and had the pleafure of remarking, that 

 about two-thirds of my grafts fucceededj from 

 thence I entertained the expedlation, that in a fub- 

 fequent year or two the uningrafted might be cut 

 down to form the quick hedge, and the ingrafted 

 grow up at the requifite diftance, and form a row of 

 ufeful trees ; but my objed was defeated by the un-; 

 generous or felfifh notice (I conceive) that was paid 

 to my fuccefs, as moft of thefe grafted flx)cks (they- 

 being at a diftance from my houfe) were taken 

 away, and to preferve the few remaining, I was ob- 

 liged to take them up myfelf. Though ftopt in this 

 progrefs on my crab-tree hedge, at the approach of 

 the fpring of laftyear (1790) I pitched ona white- 

 thorn hedge, of many years growth, the boundary 

 of a garden, and marked at due diftance many of 



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