N. 4* Of Inoculation 

 Inoculation is performed by cakeing off that eye or 

 little bud which containes the beginning of a bough 

 provided for growth in the next fpring/and planting 

 it fo upon another flock that the fap of the flock may 

 without impediment or interrupt courfepafle unto 

 the little eye (as I may call it) imperfect or inchoate 

 bough, and ferve it forNutriment: For which operati- 

 on the Bark muft be cut either downrtght,with a crofs 

 cut on the top ; the downright cut feeing about an 

 inch long,and the crofs cut onely big enough to ferve 

 for the ea lie lifting up the Bark: and then the fides 

 being lifted up with a Knife or Quill,the Shield is to 

 be put in, and the lips or fides of the Bark before 

 lifted up, are to be bound down upon the fhield : Or 

 the crofs cut may be in the middle, and then the 

 ihield is to be made picked at both ends (otherwife in 

 the forementioned way, the lower end onely is made 

 picked) and the four lips are to be lifted up for the 

 letting in the ihield. Others cut the Bark clean ouc 

 in an oblong fqutre, and cutting the fbield exactly 

 in the fame dimensions and figure, apply it to the dif- 

 barked place in the Stock. Others cut their (hield 

 in the mentioned Figure, but take not off all the 

 Bark anfwering the oblong fquare fhield, but leave 

 the lover part on the flock, under which they put 

 the lower end of the Shield , and binde it down 

 thereon. Other varieties there may be, and are ufed, 

 iome more of which are delineated in the annexed 

 Figures : To take off the Bud clean from the Cyon, 

 the beft way is, to draw the lines of your fbield 

 through the Bark with your Knife, and to take off the 

 refl of the Bark thereabouts, leaving onely the in- 

 tended Shield thereon. 



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