86 OF GRAFFIN'G. SECT. VII. 



flock, choofing a gibbous part of it To as exactly to 

 correfpond ivith the cut- fur face of the cion, taking 

 care to fit them fo that the cion may Hand erect, (or 

 nearly) when clapped to. Shouldering is commonly 

 pi act i fed alfo in this way. 



Graffing in THE eark, which is fometimes 

 called crown graffing, is perhaps as good a way as any, 

 hoth for eafe of operation and certainty of fuccefs; but 

 it will hardly fuit any other fruit than apples or pears, 

 as other cions will be paft ufe (molt likely) before the 

 bark of the flocks will peel, as the time for this bu- 

 finefs is towards the end of March, or beginning of 

 April. 



The head being cut off, make a ft rait flit down and 

 through the bark from the top, at the place deftined 

 for tlie graff, which mould be rather foutherly or 

 wefterh. "This fcore down the bark mould be nearly 

 as long as the flope cut of the cion, which may be 

 one and a half, or two inches. Loofen the bark a little 

 at the top of the fcore, and then with fome fmootb 

 infirument rather of dry hard wood, ivory, bone, or 

 filver, than iron or fteel, open the bark fufficiently to 

 receive the cion, by pufhing the instrument down a 

 trifle below the bottom of the Hit. This lnitrument 

 mould be thin, tapered and rounded towards the point, 

 tc fuit the fliape of the cion's face; one fide of it flat, 

 and the other a little convex, the flat fide being ap- 

 plied to the wood of the flock ; let it be rather nar- 

 rower than the cion, that it may not loofen the bark 

 too wide. 



Cut a bit of the bark of the cion fmooth ott at the 

 bottom that it may rot turn up in puming down. It 

 will be proper to cut the cion with a fmall Jhoulder, to 

 reft upon the ftock. And becaufe when the cion is in, 

 it will bear the bark up hollow from the ftock, fcore 

 the bark on each fide the cion, fo that it may fall 

 clof'e to the ftock, and to the edges of the cion. Bind 

 and clay neatly. In this way of graffing there is a 

 7 * fort 



