Instructions for Pruninc:, Budding, &:c. xxlii 



the feeds are to be fcattered pretty clofe, to provide for 

 failures, and by this management the hedges will coire 

 lip thick at the bottom, when you may promife yourfelf 

 fuccefs, provided you are careful of them and keep them 

 clean; this hedge, when in growth for clipping, Ihould 

 be fhearcd in Aiay and AugujU but for a common fence 

 once a year will do. If a hedge is to be made by plants 

 of holly, let the ground be well trenched. The time tor 

 fetting plants is \x\Oclober, unlefs the ground is very wet; 

 March then is the proper feafon. Plants that have been 

 twice removed, and from an interior ioil, will anfwer 

 beft, provided they are raifed with a ball of earth, and 

 protected from the frofl. 



Inoculating, or Budding, is alwavs performed when 

 the trees are in full fap ; in this it differs from grafting. 

 This is commonly practifed upon all forts or Hone fruit, 

 in particular, fuch as Peaches, Nei^arines, Cherries, 

 Plums, i^c. as alio Oranges and yejfamines, and is pre- 

 ferable to any other kind of grafting, for moil fort of 

 tender fruits. You muft be firir provided with a budding 

 knife in good order, the end of which terminates in the 

 form of a paper cutter of ivory, but narrower, with 

 which you are to raife the bark of the flock to admit the 

 bud, and fome bafs matting foaked in water to increafe 

 its ftrength ; then, having taken off the cuttings from 

 the trees you would propagate, choofe a fmooth part of 

 the ftock, about five or fix inches above the lurface of 

 the ground, if defigned for dwarts, but if for ifandards, 

 they (hould be budded fix feet above ground ; (fee fig. 3) 

 then with your knife make an horizontal cut acrofs the 

 rind of the flock (/), and from the middle of that cut 

 make a flit downwards about two inches in length ( ^), 

 fo that it may be in the form of a T, not cutting fodeep 

 as to wound the wood of the flock ; then take the flioot 

 ot the former year's growth, cut off the leaf, leaving 

 the foot-flalk as reprefenled in figure 6, make a crots 

 cut about half an inch above the eye or bud, and with 

 your kniteflit oif' the bud, with pan of the \vood to it, 

 in the Form of an efcutchcon, a figure in heraldry, which 

 will be in lorm as reprefcntcd by figure 4 {b, the wood 

 as it appears in tnc.cut) ; this done, von mufl with your 

 knife ralfc up that part of the woo'd (b) w Inch was taken 

 c with 



