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as the crown of the ftocis: may not be more than about 

 half an inch broad. This done, prepare your graft, or 

 cion, which is done in this manner : obferve to cut your 

 grafts into due lengths, leaving four or five eyes to each : 

 then take your fharpeft knife, and pare away the bark and 

 fome of the wood at the lower end of the graft in a fioping 

 manner, about an inch and an half or near two inches ia 

 length; and then cut the other fide in the fame form, 

 making it to have a wedge-like fhape ; but let one 

 iide of it, which is to he placed outwards in the 

 ilock, be left near douWe the thicknefs of the other fide ; 

 therefore, always take care to make one fide thicker than 

 the other. The graft being prepared, take your rtrong 

 knife, and place it on the middle of the ftock, crofs-ways the 

 top of the f'oped part, and with your mallet ftrike the knife 

 to the ftock, obferving to cleave it no farther than what i» 

 neceffary to admit the graft readily ; then drive the graft- 

 ing chifle!, or fome inilrument a little way into the cleft, 

 at the Hoped part of the ftock, to keep it open for the re- 

 ception of the graft, which then diredlly introduce into the 

 cleft on the uncut or upright fide of the ftock, at the back 

 of the flope, inferting it with great exa(5lnefs,as far as it 

 is cut, with the thickeft edge outwards, and fo that the rind 

 may meet exadlly even every way with the rind of the ftock. 

 The graft being placed, then remove the grafting chifTel, 

 taking care not to difplace the graft ; this done, let it be 

 tied and well clayed in the manner diredled as above, in 

 the work of whip or tongue-grafting. 



But in this cleft-grafting, fome people choofe to put 

 two grafts in a ftock; and when that is praflifed, they 

 only cut off the head of the ftock level, and fo pare it fmooth, 

 and then cleave it quite acrofs, and put in two grafts, one 

 on each fide the ftock, preparing and placing them as- 

 above diredted. 



And in fome trees or ftocks, that are not lefs than two 

 or three inches in thicknefs, I have put in four grafts j 

 but the ftock for this practice muft be twice cleft, and the 

 clefts muft not be acrofs, but parallel to each other, and 

 fo fix two grafts in each fide of the ftock, obferving to 

 bind and clay as above. 



This kind of grafting may likewife be performed on the 

 branches of trees that already bear fruit, if you deiirc to 

 change the fort5,. 



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