SECT. VII. OF GRAFTING. 85 



put in two cions, merely in cafe one mould mifs ; but 

 it is not advifeable. It need hardly be ubferved, that in 

 this cafe the crown mull: be left whole. 



W ' i t h refpecl to the time ot performing this work, 

 remember that what has been laid relates to pears, 

 plums and cherries : apples cannot be graffed till the 

 beginning of March, or later, as the feafon is, even 

 into April, for the fap mull be on the move. 



Whip-graffing lias the advantage of cleft- 

 graffing in neatnefs, and not requiring the Hocks to be 

 lo old by a vear or two, as very fmall ones will do in 

 this way ; tor the ftock is directly covered by the 

 cion, and it takes with certainty it properly pertormed. 

 Cions fuitable to proper ftocks cannot however always 

 be had. Stock and cion are to be both of a Jtze, or 

 rather nearly fo, is better, the ftock having the ad- 

 vantage in bignefs ; for thus it is not fo likely to be 

 overgrown, as it happens when the cion is of a more 

 free nature. When the ftock is overgrown by the 

 cion, it will give it fome opportunity to thicken, by 

 Hitting the bark through downwards, in two or three 

 places. This circumitance is not, however, material 

 in dwarf trees. 



Having cut the head of the flock off, and the cion 

 to its proper length, fiope the lower end of the cion 

 about an inch and a haiiV and to a point ; then cut the 

 flock to anfwer it, (the cut of the itock however may 

 be a trifle wider and longer) bark againfl bark, and tie 

 them together exactly to their place, and clay it. But 

 for the greater certainty of keeping a cion to the part, 

 cut it fo as to leave a fmall jhzulcier at the top of the 

 flope, and the ftock fo as to leave a narrow bit of its 

 crown to anfwer it, and to hold it. 



There is a fort of whip- grafting that has been deno- 

 minated flicing, or packing, which differs only from 

 the one juft defcribed, in that the flock is oi any fize; 

 and this is performed by cutting the cion to a face, as 

 before, and then taking off a flice from the (beheaded) 



flock, 



