94- OF GRAFFING. SECT. VII. 



In March, cut the he id of the ftock off with a keen 

 knife, cloie behind the budding, in a (loping direction; 

 fome leave three or four inches of the itock above the 

 bud till the following fpring, and it will ferve to tie the 

 new (hoot to, in order to keep it to a proper erect di- 

 rection. Suffer no {hoots from the flock, but rub the 

 buds off as foon as they appear. It may be of ufe to 

 jhadc inoculated buds a few days by a leaf, or a bit of 

 paper. 



Perfons defigning to graff, are apt to neglect cutting 

 their cions till they get too forward, therefore remem- 

 ber to be in time. To do the work well, there mult be 

 good tools, &c. and particularly a keen knife. Choofe 

 as good a day as can reasonably be expe&ed, for bad 

 weather occaiions hurry and embarraiTment ; but defer 

 not too long on account of the weather. In handling 

 cions, take care of their eyes, that nothing bruifes them, 

 and particularly of the buds ufed for inoculation . 



Some motion of the jap is proper at the time of all 

 grafting, but a free motion is necelfary for the mode of 

 grafting in the burk, and as on the funny fide of the ftock 

 it moves freeft, and is the bed afpect, as to weather, 

 insertion of ^r/v^r, though not buds, if it can be avoided, 

 mould be always on a part of the itock inclining to the 

 W'cjL Remember to take off, or at leaft to loqfen, the 

 bandages on grafts, as loon as they have taken. Silver 

 (as a fruit knife} is beft to raife the bark withj or any 

 thing is preferable to iron. 



Though inoculation may feem the flowed mode of 

 propagating hu>>-trees, it proves eventually the quick- 

 eit ; and is the rooft certain wa) to produce free grow- 

 ing trees, with a well covered ilock. The iniertion of 



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