92 OF GRAFFING. SECT. VTT. 



In this way of graffing, the cions are liable to be 

 disturbed, or moved from their places by strong 

 winds, and the best preventative is to tie small long 

 sticks to the stocks, and then the cions to them, tak- 

 ing care to place the sticks so as not to force the 

 cions ; and as the shoots proceed to push, they may 

 be fastened to the sticks also, and so grow two years, 

 when nature will need no farther assistance. 



Si DE-G RAFFING is done in the bark, much like 

 inoculation, a cion being inserted instead of a bud ; 

 but remember, there must be a fluent sap first, i. e. 

 the bark must part readily from the wood, before 

 this mode of graffing is attempted. The head of the 

 stock is not to be cut off, only thinned a little of its 

 branches, if it be big, and the side shoots taken away. 

 The bark of the stock, where the insertion of the 

 cion is to be, must be cut through in the form of the 

 letter T, as wide and as long as is sufficient freely to 

 receive the cion, cut as before, with a slope face of 

 at least an inch long, taking advantage, if (it may 

 be) of a part of the stock, that is a little gibbous. 

 Let the bark of the stock be neatly raised to receive 

 it, but yet no more than necessary ; a little bit of the 

 bark may be sliced off the part that is over the cross 

 cut, to receive the cion the better. 



APPROACH GRAFFING, or INARCHING, is per- 

 formed (in April or May} when the stock we would 

 graff, and the tree we would propagate, grows so near 

 together, as to be brought conveniently into contact, 

 and the nearer the graff and the stock are of a size 

 the better. This mode of preparation is esteemed 

 the surest of all, as it will conjoin branches of trees 

 which are scarcely congenerous in their nature ; and 

 in truth, some things cannot be so well propagated 

 any other way. It is a method that is, or can be, 

 seldom used for common fruit-trees ; but if any one 

 wishes to try the experiment, the stock or stocks 



