xxiv Instructions for Pruning, Budding, 5ic. 



with the bud, obferving whether the eye of the bud 

 continues to the rind or not, (tor all thofe buds which 

 lofe their eyes in dripping, fhould not be ufed) then 

 gently raife the bark bb of figure 3 where the crofs in- 

 cifion was made at f, with the flat haft of your knife, 

 feparating the bark from the wood, down the cut ^, to 

 place the bud in, to incline upwards, obferving to lay 

 the bark (which you juft now raifed) fmooth on the (lock, 

 covering the cion, except where the fhoot is to be made: 

 Then -^ou mufl: bind them clofely round with the bafs 

 mat, beginning at the under part of the flit, and fo pro- 

 ceed to the top, taking care not to bind up the eye of 

 the bud. 



A''. B. When the bud (fig. 6.) is inferted in the flit (g) 

 of figure 3, you are to flide it between the wood and the 

 bark ; fo as the point [b) will come down pretty low in 

 the flit {g)f and whatever of the bud remains above the 

 horizontal cut {/) is to be cut oflF in the fame direction, 

 before you bind them. 



In about three weeks or a month you will perceive 

 fuch as have fucceeded, by their remaining frefh and 

 plump, when the bandage may be loofened, or nicked 

 with a knife to give room, which, if not done in time, 

 may force off the bud, as it will be fwelling. The Marcb 

 following you muft cut off the ftock about three inches 

 above the bud, as reprefented by the curve line at /, in 

 figure 3, floping it, that the wet may pafs off; to this 

 part of the liock it will be proper to fecure the flioot 

 which the bud made this fummer, to prevent its being 

 blown off; but this part of the ftock muft not continue 

 Jonger than one year, when it is to be cut off ciofe above 

 the bud. 



The feafon for inoculating is from the middle of yufig 

 until the middle of Jugujf, and fuch trees as are ready, 

 may be known by trying whether their buds will come 

 off well from the wood, but the moft general rule is, 

 when you obferve the buds formed at the extremity of 

 the fame year's ihoots, it fhews they have finiflied their 

 fpring growth. 



The firft tree that is generally inoculated is the jlprt- 

 cot, and the laft theOrange-y and at any time when this 

 work is performing, cloudy weather is the beft, (but not 



when 



