xvili Instructions for Pruning, Budding, &rc. 



and two or iuur cions, according to the fizc of them, 

 are put in between the wood and the bark, which may 

 he opened and raifed as in inoculation, that is, by firft 

 giving the bark an upright cut, to the depth of a little 

 more than two inches, to terminate in the horizontal jujl: 

 made, then to be railed on each fide with the thin end 

 of your budding knife, as is reprefented by figure 3 at 

 hi h, then the cion is to be infertcd, firft doping' it to 

 the length of two inches, to terminate in the bark, and 

 to be let eft with a fiioulder at the thick part of theflope, 

 to reft on the ftock, as reprefented at a, figure 1 ; over 

 this cion the bark which was raifed on tht ilock, is to 

 be gently clofed and preffcd, and thus to proceed accord- 

 ing to the number ot cions you want to graft ; but when 

 the bark will not rife, the operation muil be performed 

 after the manner of Whip or Tongue grafting, as repre- 

 fented by the figures 2, ?» 8 and 10, to which we refer, 

 having be&n very particular in our direftions for perform- 

 ing it, as it is the mod ufeful. When all is fmoothed 

 up, and fecured by a ligature, the crown of the flock is 

 to be well clayed, and worked Jo as to terminate in a 

 point to carry off the rain, leaving the eyes of the cions 

 uncovered ; the difficulty of preferving thefe grafts, 

 thous:h of fome years ftanding, has put this method out 

 of ufe. 



2. Cleft or Jlit graft ingi called Stock, proper for trees 

 frorH one to two inches diameter, to be performed in 

 March. This ji;ralting is pra6lifed on tl;e {locks of trees 

 of the fmaller fize, and may be ufed with fuccefs, where 

 the rind of the flock is not too thick, whereby the inner 

 bark of the cion may be prevented joining ; this fhouid 

 be performed on flocks or branches more than an inch 

 diameter, after this manner; the head of the flock, &c. 

 js to be cut oilF with a flope, as at figure 1 1 r, /, and a 

 flit made the contrary way, (a) in the top of the ilope, 

 deep enough to receive the cion, which is to be cut in 

 the form of a wedge, as reprefented by figure 12. taper- 

 ing to the length of two inches, terminating very thin; 

 and in fetting the cion into the flit of the flock, there 

 muft be great care taken to join the rind of the cion with 

 the rind of the flock; this will be befl done by an up- 

 right politicn, for by it tiie greatefl length will be given 



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