Feb.] The Nursery. lOj 



Thofe trees which are grafted this way, will take, aud 

 /hoot very free ; but there .is, for the iirilyear or two after 

 grafting-, an inconvenience attending them, and that is the 

 grafts being liable to be blov/n out of the Hock by violent 

 winds ; but this muft be remedied by tj-ing two or three 

 ilicks to the body of the ftock, or branch that is grafted, 

 and the grafts may be tied to the flicks. ' 



The beft time for performing this kind of grafting, is in 

 the laft week of March, or firit week in April ; for then the 

 fap will begin to be in motion, which renders the bark of 

 the ilock much eafier to be feparated from the wood to ad- 

 mit the grafts. 



Thefe grafts will be pretty well united with the ilock by 

 the end of May or beginning of June. 



Fcurthf Grafting by Approach or Inarching. 



Another way of grafting is Hill in praclice, which is 

 generally called Inarching, or Grafting by Approach ; but 

 this is not near fo commonly pradifed as the three ways 

 before mentioned, and this way was chiefly invented for 

 fuch trees or fhrubs a& are not eafily to be propagated by 

 any other method. 



The method of performing the operation is this. 



When it is intended to propagate any kind of tree or 

 fhrub by this manner of grafting, it muft be obferved, that 

 the ilock you would graft upon, and the tree from which 

 you would take the graft, muft ftand fo near, or can be 

 placed fo near, that the body of the branch you would 

 inarch, can, as it grows, be brought to join readily to any 

 part of the body of the ftock ; for the graft is not to be fe- 

 parated from the mother plant, till fome months after per- 

 forming the operation ; nor is the head of the ftock to be 

 cut off till that time, except you cannot otherwife conve- 

 niently fix the graft. 



For inftance, fuppofe you want to inarch fome branches 

 of trees, &c. and fuppofe the faid branches to be three, 

 four, or five feet or more from the furface of the ground, 

 and fuppofe the ftocks you would graft upon to be in pots ; 

 in that cafe there muft be a kind of flight ftage ereded, 

 clofe to and as high as the branches of the tree : upon this 

 ftage the pots which contain the ftocks muft be placed : 

 then take oiie of the branches you defire to inarch, and 

 bring the body of the faid branch to touch that of the 



F 4. ftock. 



