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ground for that purpose, or to some other more convenient sup- 

 port, to prevent their being displaced thereby. 



The slocks and grafts are to remain for three months, or upwards, 

 before you unbind them ; at the expiration of that time, take off the 

 clay and bandages, and, if well taken, separate the graft from the 

 mother plant, being careful to do this with a perfectly sharp knife, 

 cutting it off with a slope downwards to the stock ; and if not done 

 in grafting, the head of the stock must also be cut off close to the 

 giaft, and afterwards the stem kept free from any undershoots. If 

 at this time the graft and stock, particularly if not extremely well 

 united, were tied again, gently as before, fresh clayed, and those 

 suffered to remain on for a month or five weeks, it would be of 

 considerable advantage. 



The walnut, fig, and mulberry, with many other trees, which 

 do not succeed by the common methods of grafting, will take free- 

 ly by this, and also various kinds of evergreens. It is in frequent 

 use to ingraft a fruit-bearing branch, upon a common stock of the 

 same family, by which means you have a tree with many fruit, in a 

 few months, that would take perhaps as many years, when left to 

 nature, before it would shew a single one. This is frequently prac- 

 tised on orange trees, and other green-house plants. 



This method of grafting is not to be performed so early in the 

 season as the others, its being most successful when the sap is 

 flowing ; in the middle states, I would recommend doing it towards 

 the latter end of April. But it is not to be practised where the 

 other methods will succeed ; for trees propagated in this way, are 

 always observed to grow more weakly, and never to the size of 

 those which are propagated by budding, or the other modes of 

 grafting. 



Grafting Peaches, Nectarines, and Ajiricots. 



Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, will succeed by grafting, but 

 propagating them by inoculation is much preferable ; however, if 

 you graft them, let it be done early, always before they shew flow- 

 ers, having their cions taken off' three weeks previous to the time 

 of performing the operation, and deposited in the earth till that pe- 

 riod, as before directed for those of other fruit trees ; in the choice 

 of which you must be very particular, so as to get the best ripened 

 young wood, round, plump, and short jointed, and with very little 

 pith ; all these will take as freely on plum stocks, as on their 

 own kinds, and if intended for walls or espaliers, will be more per- 

 manent, as they are not so subject to be destroyed by worms. 

 Grafting may be also performed, to any desirable extent, on most 

 kinds of forest and ornamental trees, such as elm, ash, oak, holly, 

 althea-frutex, Sec. &c. whose cions are not soft-wooded, nor too full 

 of pith. 



Management of Fruit -Trees, grafted and budded last Year. 



Those fruit-trees which were grafted last year, should now hav< 

 their shoots shortened, that they "may send forth lateral branches t( 

 form regular heads ; if they are intended for espaliers or wall- 

 trees, observe the method recommended in page -Ob if for stand- 



