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Oliver Fiske, Esq. of Worces- 

 ter, Massachusetts, has ascertained 

 by an experiment detailed in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Repo- 

 sitory, vol. VI. p. 244, that corn 

 planted in rows produces more 

 than when planted in hills, and re- 

 ceived a premium for his experi- 

 ment, 



INOCULATING, or BUD- 

 DING, inserting a bud so that it 

 will live and grow, in the side of 

 the trunk, or limb of a tree. It 

 answers the same end as grafting. 

 Mr. Miller says, " This is com- 

 monly practised upon all sorts of 

 stone fruit in particular, such as 

 peaches, nectarines, cherries, 

 plums, &c. as also upon oranges 

 and jasmines, and is preferable to 

 any sort of grafting. The method 

 of performing it is as follows : You 

 must be provided with a sharp 

 penknife, having a flat haft (the 

 use of which is to raise the bark 

 of the stalk to admit the bud) and 

 some sound bass mat, which should 

 be soaked in water, to increase its 

 strength, and make it more plia- 

 ble ; then having taken off the 

 cuttings of the trees you are to 

 propagate, you should choose a 

 smooth part of the stock about five 

 or six inches above the surface of 

 the ground, if designed for dwarfs ; 

 but if for standards, they should be 

 budded six feet above ground ; 

 then with your knife make a hori- 

 zontal cut cross the rind of the 

 stock, and from the middle of that 

 cut make a slit downwards about 

 two inches in length, so that it 

 may be in the form of T ; but 

 you must be careful not to cut too 

 deep, lest you wound the stock. 



Then having cut off the leaf from 

 the bud, leaving the foot stock re- 

 maining, you should make a cross 

 cut about half an inch below the 

 eye, and with your knife slit off 

 the bud, with part of the wood to it. 

 This done, you must withyour knife 

 pull off that part of the wood 

 which was taken with the bud. ob- 

 serving whether the eye of the 

 bud be left to it or not (for all 

 those buds which lose their eyes 

 in stripping should be throwa 

 away, being good for nothing.) 

 Then having gently raised the 

 bark of the stock where the cross 

 incision was made, with the flat 

 haft of your penknife, cleave the 

 bark from the wood, and thrust 

 the bud therein, observing to place 

 it smooth between the rind and 

 the wood of the stock, cutting off 

 any part of the rind belonging to 

 the bud, which may be loo long 

 for the slit made in the stock : 

 And so having exactly fitted the 

 bud to the stock, you must tie 

 them closely round with bass mat, 

 beginning at the under part of the 

 slit, and so proceed to the top, 

 taking care that you do not bind 

 round the eye of the bud, which 

 should be left open. 



" When your buds have been 

 inoculated three weeks or a month, 

 you will see which of them have 

 taken ; those of them which ap- 

 pear shrivelled and black being 

 dead, but those which remain fresh 

 and plump you may depend are 

 joined. At this time you should 

 loosen the bandage, which, if not 

 done in time, will pinch the stock, 

 and greatly injure, if not destroy, 

 the bud. 



