SM OP CHAFFING; SECT. VII* 



is to receive the cion ; but here the graff and the 

 stock must be both of a size, or nearly so. There 

 has been this distinction made, to call it inarching 

 when the head is cut off, and approach graffing when 

 it is not. Gardeners mostly prefer the former me- 

 thod. 



BUDDING, or INOCULATION, though here last 

 mentioned, is the most considerable mode of propa- 

 gation, and is a pretty summer business. Apricots, 

 peaches, and nectarines, are always propagated this 

 way, and plums and cherries may be. Pears are 

 sometimes budded, and apples have been, -but the 

 success is uncertain. Not only fruit, but forest y 

 and ornamental trees and shrubs are inoculated. 

 The branches also of trees as well as stems are some- 

 times budded, which is best done on two years wood, 

 though it may be on both younger and older. 



Inoculation begins as soon as good shoots with 

 good eyes, of the present year, can be had, so that 

 the season may be reckoned from Mid- June to Mid- 

 August ; but about Old Midsummer, or rather after, 

 is the usual and best time for the work : it should be 

 done in a morning or evening, (the latter rather best) 

 except the day be cloudy, when any part of it will 

 do. 



Apricots being first ready, the budding season be- 

 gins with them. The stocks to be used are those of 

 the plum when half an inch thick, a little under or 

 over, and the operation is to take place from four to 

 eight inches from the ground. 



Peaches and nectarines are propagated on the same 

 sort of stocks ; but if the plum stock is first budded 

 with an apricot, (very low) and when of proper size 

 budded with a peach, and especially a nectarine, the 

 advantage is reckoned that it takes best so, and comes 

 to a better bearing, producing an improved fruit, 



