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the Bark from the Wood on both Sides, 

 beginning at the Bottom ; then prepare your 

 Bud, by cutting it ofF with your Fen-knife, 

 and entering pretty deep into the Wood, as 

 much above as below the Bud, to the Length 

 of the Slit in the Stock. After the Eud is 

 thus prepared, with the Point of the Pen- 

 knife and your Thumb take out the woody 

 Pari: of it, (but herein take particular Care 

 that the Eye of the Bud be preferv'd) then 

 put your Bud in between the Bark and the 

 Wood of the Stock, at the crofs Slit, lead- 

 ing it upward by the Stalk where the Leaf 

 grew *till it exactly clofes : Then bind it a- 

 bout with coarfe woollen Yarn, the better 

 to make all Parts of it regularly clofe, and 

 the Bud incorporate it felf with the Stock 5 

 and the Operation is done. 



In three Weeks the Bud will be incorpora- 

 ted, and then you mufl: Joofen the Yarn, 

 that it may not gall the Place too much, 

 which will be dangerous in a vigorous Stock. 

 The quicker this Operation is performed the 

 better 5 and you are to put two or three Buds 

 into one Stock of Peaches and JSeSorines^ 

 that if one do not fucceed, another may* 



If your Bads" inoculated mjune do not hit, 

 you may make a fecond Attempt the fame Year 

 on the fame Stock, and that with very good 

 Succeft. And any Time betw^een the Begui- 

 ning of fuyje and the latter End of Avgufi^ 

 in a good Seafon, nioft Trees may be inocu- 

 lated 5 and fometimesPd;^/"j' may be inoculated 



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