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in September J and do very well : But Care is 

 to be taken that the Branch or Shoot made 

 Choice of for Buds to inoculate with, do not 

 lye by any Time (as in Grafting) for it is 

 to be immediately emplo)'d. 



When your Stocks are large, and the Bark 

 is become thick and ftubborn, that it will 

 not readily part, nor handfomely clofe up, 

 you muft be content to graft 3 but you 

 may inoculate on flender Shoots made near 

 the Grafting Place, even the fame Yean And 

 in refped to Stocks in general, you cannot 

 expeft Succefs, if the Bark does not readily 

 part from the Wood on making an Incifion 

 with your Pen-knife, and the Sap run well. 

 The Cherry^ Plum, and Pear, rarely fail to 

 anfwer Expedation in Budding 3 but the Jp- 

 pie is very apt to deceive us, becaufe the 

 Bark is not fo inclineable to part as in other 

 Fruit, 



There are a great many Ways of Grafting, 

 but I (hall fatisfy my Curiofity with men- 

 tioning only four. The firft is the ancient and 

 common Method of Grafting in the Gleft, or 

 Slit-Grafting, performed on Pear, Cherry^ 

 and Plum Stocks, the latter End of February 

 or Beginning oi March, After you have chofe 

 your Stock, in a fmooth Place cut the Head 

 of it off flopewife, then even the Top hori- 

 zontally with your Knife : This being done, 

 make a Slit near two Inches deep down the 

 Middle of the Stock, with a large ftrong Pen- 

 knife or otherwife 5 then prepare your Scion 



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