96 OF GRAFFIXG. SECT. VII, 



ther) and if both fail this year, the stocks may do 

 again the next, as the heads in graffing by inoculation 

 are not to be cut oft' till the spring following, because 

 the inserted buds do not push till then, when they 

 will grow off* apace. .In a very early inoculation, 

 the bud may shoot the same year ; but it then comes 

 weak, and will hardly endure a severe winter. 



Let the dons to procure buds for inoculation, be 

 taken only from the outside branches of healthy and 

 fruit fid trees. If -early budding be attempted, it 

 will be proper to cut off some spare shoot, (not fit 

 for the purpose) to try first whether the bark will 

 yet readily part from the wood. 



The season being right, and the cions at hand, 

 having a sharp narrow-bladed knife, and neat tough 

 wet bass, set about the work adroitly, for the quicker 

 it is done the better; but " make no more haste than 

 good speed." Keep the bud, as much as may be, 

 from sun and wind : they must not be taken from the 

 upper part of the cions, as the bark and buds there are 

 too raw. If cions, or buds, be, brought from any 

 distance, they should be conveyed in damp (not wet) 

 snoss, or grass, and never kept above a day and night, 

 but the sooner they are used the better. 



Before the buds are prepared, get the stock ready 

 to receive them, by taking off lateral shoots, leaving 

 an uncut single stem. At the part fixed on for the 

 inoculation, (which should be smooth, and rather on 

 the north side) cut the bark through to the wood, in 

 form thus, T, the cross and the down slit being of 

 the length necessary to take in the bud, which may be 

 cut with from one to two inches of bark; putting the 

 point of a knife (or some instrument rather not of 

 iron or steel) in to the top of the down out t of the 

 stock, raise the bark all the way to the bottom, so 

 it will just receive the bud easily. There are 



