SECT. VII.' OF GRAFFING. 8,5 



But though they raise fine trees, much disappoint- 

 ment has often happened in dealing with them (par- 

 ticularly in the sort) which might be avoided, by a 

 man's being able to raise good trees for himself. 

 Directions precisely descriptive of the business of 

 grafting, are therefore here attempted, and if once 

 understood, trials should be made without minding 

 the discouragement of a few failures : practice makes 

 perfect. 



Proper stocks being ready, and tions, or buds 

 procured, there will be wanting a good sharp nar- 

 row bladed pen-knife, arid a sharp smooth-edged 

 pruning-knife, with some well wrought loam, or clay, 

 and some good new bass, or strong yarn. .The clay 

 should be made up as mortar, mixed with short cut 

 hair, or fine chopt hay, with a little horse dung, and 

 prepared a day or two before-hand ; or longer the 

 better, being beat up afresh with a little water every 

 day. 



The first thing to be done is, to cut. off the head 

 of the stock at the proper height, and in a fair part 

 of the bark, making a smooth flat top : If the stock 

 is too strong for the knife, and a saw is used, it must 

 be smoothed with the knife after. The proper size 

 for stocks, is from half an inch to an inch diameter, 

 yet a little more or less, may do. When a stock is * 

 too little, the cion is apt to overgrow it, and when 

 too big. the cion docs not so well, or so soon, cover 

 the stock, as might be wished : yet stocks of any 

 size can be used by one mode of grafting or other. 



Dwarf frees are to be grafted within six inches of 

 the ground, and standard* as high as the stock will 

 well; bear, considering whether they are .to be half or 

 full standards ; the former at about three or four 

 feet, the latter at five or six. But trees designed for 

 standards, may be grafted, or inoculated at a lowec 



