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with fine hay, made into pledgets, aj^dwind round 

 tiie grafts and flock, making it fmooth on the out- 

 fide^ this will keep the wet and air out of the 

 crown of the flock, and the fun from exhaufling 

 the fap. The befl time for performing this bufi- 

 ne(S ii in February and March. Whip-grafting is 

 pradlifed with great fuccefs, and generally on fmall 

 flocks about half an inch in diameter. The graft 

 or fcion nearly the fize of the (lock. This flock 

 mufl be cut off in a floping diredlion, and the graft 

 alfo, about one and half inch in length j pare both 

 ftock and graft fmooth, and to fit each other, par- 

 ticularly betwixt the wood and rind, that the fap 

 may freely circulate; then cut a flit or tongue about 

 half an inch in the fcion upward, the fame in the 

 flock downward, to receive the tongue in the 

 fcion; in that manner fix the graft in the flock; 

 immediately tie a firing of foft bafs or yarn round 

 to keep the flock and graft in its right pofition; and 

 immediately cover the place with fome grafting 

 clay. In May or June the bandages muft be 

 taken off^. 



Saddle-grafting is fomewhat funilar; the flock 

 being cut ofi^ floping, and die fcion made to fit, and 

 tied on as in whip-grafting. 



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