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wood, ivory, bone, or silver, than iron or steel, open 

 the bark sufficiently to receive the cion, by pushing 

 the instrument down a trifle below the bottom of the 

 slit. This instrument should be thin, tapered and 

 rounded towards the point, to suit the shape of the 

 cion's face ; one side of it flat, and the other a little 

 convex, the flat side being applied to the wood of the 

 stock ; let it be rather narrower than the cion, that 

 it may not Loosen the bark too wide. 



Cut a bit of the bark of the cion smooth off at the 

 bottom, that it may not turn up in pushing down. 

 It will be proper to cut the cion with a small shoulder, 

 to rest upon the stock. And because when the cion 

 is in, it will bear the bark up hollow from the stock, 

 score the bark on each side the cion, so thai it may 

 fall the closer to the stock, and to the edges of the 

 cion. Bind and clay neatly. In this way of grafting 

 there is a sort of agreement between the cion and 

 stock necessary ; the cion not being too big, or the 

 stock too small, to prevent a proper bedding. If 

 more than one cion be not put in, the stock on the 

 opposite side to the cion should be sloped up about 

 two inches in length, to half its thickness. 



This way of graffing is used most properly with 

 strong stocks ; and sometimes is applied to large 

 branches, and even trunks <of old trees, to change the 

 sorts, or renew the wood. In proportion to the 

 largeness of which, from two to five or six cions are 

 put in, and sometimes of different sorts ; and if the 

 stock be large, the more the better, as it heals over 

 the sooner, and as they insure the life of the stock, 

 by receiving and carrying off the sap ; in which re- 

 spect a single branch of the head of an old stock may 

 be left, for the sap to pass off by when it begins to 

 stir. 



Having inserted the cions, and bound them, clay 

 the top of the stock well } so as to shoot off the wet. 



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