SECT. VII. OF GRAFFING. Ol 



to four that are well placed; i. e. with a lateral direc- 

 tion for the wall. 



Though the longer inoculation is deferred, the riper 

 the ihoots will be for furnifhing buds; yet there is this 

 advantage in beginning as early as may be, that if the 

 budding appears not to have taken, the work may be 

 done again be lore the feafon is out. Or, to injure 

 fuccefs, two buds may be inferted in the fame flock, 

 (but not in a direction under one another) and if both 

 fail this year, the flocks may do again the next, as the 

 heads in grafting by inoculation are not to be cut off 

 till the fffring following, becaufe the inferted buds do 

 not pufh till then, when they will grow off apace: In 

 a very early inoculation, the bud may {hoot the fame 

 year ; but it then comes weak, and will hardly endure 

 a fevere winter. 



Let the cions to procure buds for inoculation, be 

 taken only from the outfide branches of healthy and 

 fruitful trees. If early budding be attempted, it will 

 be proper to cut off fome fpare fhoot, (not fit for the 

 purpofe,) to try firft whether the bark will yet readily 

 part from the wood. 



The feafon being right, and the cions at hand, having 

 a {harp narrow bladed knife, and neat tough wet bafs % 

 fet about the work adroitly, for the quicker it is done 

 the better ; but " make no more hafle than good 

 fpeed." Keep the bud, as much as may be, from fun 

 and wind: they muff not be taken from the upper part 

 oi the cions, as the bark and buds there are too raw. 

 It cions, or buds, be brought from any diflance, they 

 mould be conveyed in damp (not wet) n>>fs, or grafs, 

 and never kept above a day and night, but the foorier 

 they are ufed the better. 



Belore the buds are prepared, get the flock ready to 

 receive them, by taking off lateral moots, leaving an 

 uncut Tingle item. At the part fixed on for the inocu- 

 lation, (which mould be fmooth, and rather on the 



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