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is put on the stock round the graft, in the same be taken oft"; and, if it be found that the twa 



manner as the clay is usually applied ; and, barks have separated during the winter, with 



though it be not above a quarter of an inch the point of a sharp knife all the brown part of 



thick, it keeps out the air more effectually than the bark (which if left would infallibly bring 



the clay ; and, as cold hardens it, there is no on the canker) should be cut out, and the coni- 



danger of its being hurt by frost, which is very position rubbed into the wound. When the 



apt to cause the clav to crack, and fall off ; and, grafts have produced strong leading shoots, the- 



when the heat of the summer comes on, it melts tops of them should be pinched off with the 



and falls off without any trouble. In the using finger and thumb; but if they have not shot 



it, a tin or copper pot is necessary, with a con- strong, they should not be cut till the spring, 



venience under it to keep a very gentle fire with when they may be cut down to three or four 



small coal; otherwise the cold' soon condenses eyes, according to their strength, tomakeihem 



the mixture. It is necessary not to apply it too produce horizontal shoots, and form handsome 



hot, lest the graft be injured. A persona little heads. This sort of grafting should alwavs be 



accustomed to this composition applies it very performed in moist or cloudy weather, if pos- 



fast ; and it is much easier for him to work with sible. 



than clay, especially when the season proves Mr. Forsyth says that rubbing a little of this 



cold composition into the incision will effectually 



In the business of grafting, it is found that prevent the canker, and in applying it round the 



in long continued dry seasons the grafts are graft a much less quantity is sufficient than of 



liable to fail in taking, which is sometimes pro- the clay; as it need not be more than three 



bably owing to the improper choice of the inches round in grafting small stems or shoots, 



grafts, as well as to the dry weather. Great care and in proportion for those which are larger. It 



should of course always be taken not to graft keeps the scion moist. When used in grafting, 



with weak shoots, particularly those taken from it should be of such a consistence as to work 



<iear the top, but such as are taken from the easily with the hand, or a knife, or small trowel, 



lower end of the shoots, and in which the rather softer than grafting-clay generally is. 



wood is plump and fresh; as such as are shri- This method, on a fair trial, will, he thinks, be 



veiled seldom or never take well. Where any found "a sure, neat, and expeditious way of 



have missed in the spring, Mr. Forsyth advises grafting." 



to cut off, about the middle or latter end of June, In grafting or budding, it should be perform- 

 some fine healthy grafts of the sorts that are ed as near to the upper side of a bud as possible, 

 wished to graft with, and to open the bark in and " the most proper place for inserting the 

 the same manner as for budding, inserting the scion or bud is at the joint a little above the cross 

 graft with a piece of the former year's wood on shoot." 



it ; and after this has been done, to rub in with In respect to the sorts of trees that will suc- 



a brush some of the composition in a liquid ceed upon one another, it may be observed, that 



state ; then to wrap bass round it, as is done for all such as are of the same genus, that is, which 



spring grafting, leaving about three eyes on the agree in their flower and fruit, take upon each 



shoot, which should be tied on with the bass as other ; hence all the nut-bearing trees may be 



tight as possible; then covering the outside of safely grafted on each other, as well as all the 



the bass, thus tied up with the composition to the plum-bearing trees, as the several sorts of 



thickness of about one-eighth of an inch, as plums, almond, peach, nectarine, apricot, &e. 



well as the end of the shoot, to exclude the air but as many of tfeem are subject to emit gum 



and wet. Tn about three weeks or a month the from the parts wounded, as the peach and 



grafts should be looked over to see if they have nectarine kinds, it is fo.ind the surest method 



taken. When the graft begins to swell, it will to bud or inoculate them. 



throw off the composition ; in which case al- All such trees as bear cones also do well upon 



ways remember to apply more, to prevent the each other, though they may differ in one being 



air from penetrating the incision or wound. evergreen, and the other shedding its leaves in 



In the month of September, it should be ex- winter; as in the cedar of Libanus and the 



amined whether the wounds are all healed up, larch-tree, which arc found to succeed upon each 



and the two barks perfectly united ; which, if other; but they must be grafted by approach, 



they are, slacken the bass ; and when they are as they abound with a great quantity of resin, 



perfectly healed up, it may be wholly taken off; which is apt to evaporate from the graft when 



but if not, the base must be again tied on, and separated from the tree before it is joined with 



covered with a composition as before, letting it the stock ; whereby they are often destroyed, 



remain till the following spring. It may then The laurel likewise on the cherry, or the cherry 



