98 Otf CHAFFING. SECT. VII. 



Some gardeners insist, that it is best to cut the 

 bark of the stock thus JL, and so insert the bud by 

 pushing it upward instead of downward, because by 

 this method it shoots off wet effectually. 



Others squaring the bud to an oblong, clap it to 

 the place to be inoculated, and scoring the stock to 

 its size, cut out the bark of the stock from within 

 ( the lines, and having put the bud to the place, bind 

 it in : but great exactness must in this way be ob- 

 1 served, that the edges of the bark do regularly touch. 



Another way, and perhaps as good as any, is 

 this :- clap the bud to the stock, (the bud being 

 first squared) and rather before it is separated from 

 ,the wood, and score the bark on each side, and 

 across the top; and instead of scoring the bark at 

 .the bottom, do it a quarter of an inch (or rather 

 more) above the bottom ends of the side lines ; then 

 take off the bark between the lines, and place the 

 bud, by pushing it down this piece of bark, (being 

 first loosened) which will serve to hold it. Bind 

 close, but not over tight. If in this method the bud 

 fits exactly r , it is a very sure and neat way of inocu- 

 lating. As the scoring of the stock is best done be- 

 fore the barking of the bud, a little allowance must 

 be made, as when the bud is separated from its 

 wood, it will spread a trifle wider. 



If the buds have taken, it will be seen in about 

 .three weeks, or a month, by their appearing fresh 

 mid plump. As often as any shoots appear below 

 the budding, cut them off, and also some of the 

 -shoots above, if there are many of them ; for it is 

 .not proper that an inoculated stock should have a 

 large head* In a month loosen the bandage, by tak- 

 ing it off, and putting it on gently again, for another 

 month. 



. In March, cut the head of the stock off with a 

 keen knife,, close behind the budding, in a sloping 



