2 ^6 of FruiuGardens^* 



inftead of flitting the Stock, flit only the Bark, 

 a little above an Inch on the South-Wefl Side, 

 or as long as the flop'd Part of the Scion , and 

 at the Top of the Slit loofen the Bark with 

 the Top of your Knife: Then with a fmooth 

 Inftrument, made of Ivory or hard Wood, cut 

 flopewife, as the Scion, make Room for the 

 Scion, by thrufting it down between the 

 Bark and the Wood of the Stock, where the 

 fame was flit : This done, take your Scion 

 (being prepar'd with a flat Slope about an 

 Inch long, ending on a Point, and beguil 

 from the Backfide of an Eye) and put it inta 

 the Stock, thrufting the Top of the Slope as 

 low as the Top-Surface of the Stock, but firft 

 taking out your opening Infl:rument ^ and 

 you are to order the Bark on each Side the 

 Scion to fall clofe to the Stock : All which 

 being done, you are to clay it over as before. 

 This Grafting is to be performed in the Be- 

 ginning of Aprils and is efl:eem*d beyond the 

 other, as the Union of the Scion and the 

 Stock is the fooner compleated, and the Stock 

 receives not fo grievous a Wound, 



The third Method of Graftng is by Ap- 

 proach, or Inarching ^ this is perform'd where 

 a Stock grows fo near another Tree, whofe 

 Fruit you would propagate, that it may 

 be joined with a Branch of that Tree, by 

 cutting the Sides of, the Branch and Stock 

 about three Inches long, and fo fitting them, 

 that the Paflages of the Sap may meet 5 in 

 which Pofture let them be bound and clay'd ; 



When 



