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2. Cleft grafting, which answers well on small 

 stock or limbs, and has been mostly practised in this 

 country. 



3. Whip-grafting, or tongue-grafting, which is also 

 proper for small stocks only ; and, as Forsyth says, 

 is the most effectual of any, and the most in use in 

 Great Britain. 



4. Inarching, or grafting by approach. This is 

 done where the stock to be grafted on, and the tree 

 from which the graft is taken, stand so near together 

 that they may be joined. 



Forsyth says, that grafts, or scions, should be cut 

 off from the trees before the buds begin to swell ; that 

 they should be laid with the cut end downwards, and 

 buried half their length in earth, having the tops cov- 

 ered with litter, to prevent their drying too much ; that 

 they should be all of the growth of the former year ; 

 that they should always be taken from healthy, fruitful 

 trees ; for, if taken from sickly ones, the grafts often 

 partake of the distemper ; that, if taken from young 

 luxuriant trees, they may produce luxuriant shoots ; 

 but will not be so productive, as those taken from fruit- 

 ful trees ; that those which are taken from lateral, or 

 horizontal branches are to be preferred to those of the 

 strong and perpendicular shoot ; and that none should 

 be taken from the sprouts of trees. 



Mr. Forsyth prefers the whip-grafting, for common 

 cases ; but, for these, Mr. Deane prefers the cleft- 

 grafting. This, he says, is most commonly practised 

 in this country, and is attended wdth success. It is 

 done on the stocks in the nursery, or on the small 

 limbs of trees. The proper season for it is just before 

 the leaves begin to open. The head of the stock must 

 be cut off sloping, and a slit made sloping the opposite 

 way, deep enough to recieve the scion, which should 



