Having To far prepared your Bud before you rake it 

 off, remember to open the Bark of the itock, for 

 otherwife the fhield will take hurt by the Air, which 

 mutt be placed upon the Stock with all fpeed, and 

 bound with fomething that may be of a yielding na- 

 ture. The beft way of taking off Buds, is with a 

 Quill which is cut like a fcoop, the one half, or two 

 thirds, taken away for abput an inch in length at the 

 end : In taking the Bud off, be fure not to leave the 

 Root behinde ; for bindings, ufe any forts of fofc 

 Ruflies that will hold tying, long flipes of Linnen 

 or Yarn. 



I prefer fuch binding as need not be taken off till I 

 cxpeil the fpringing of the Bud, for there is much 

 peril in premature looflng the bonds, yet 'tis necef- 

 fary to unbinde whenfoever the Stock fwells about the 

 place of Inoculation. The time of Inoculating is, 

 from the firtf time you can get lirong Buds that will 

 come off after the frofts are gone in the Spring, till 

 fuch time as that the Buds then implanted may be 

 faft cemented before Frofts return in the Winter. 

 You may Inoculate with the laft years Buds, which 

 are ftrong commonly, and fit to be put in at Ea- 

 iter. 



Other Rules for Inoculation are, That the Cyon 

 from whence you take the Bud be not weak, for then 

 thefhield will be fo too, and likely bow or double 

 in the putting in 3 which is a great reafon why the 

 double yellow Provence Rofe is fo hardly propagated 

 by this means ; other Rofes, as the Rofa Muudi, 

 Velvet, Marble, and Apples, Aprecotes , and the 

 like, very eafily, that the Bud be not fprung out 

 much before it be taken off. 



If you carry Buds far, expofe them not to the 

 F 4 Sun, 



