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Eye of the Bud, which Ihould be 

 left open. 



hen your Buds have been ino- 

 culated three Weeks or a Month, 

 }ou will fee which of them are 

 taken; thofe of them which ap- 

 pear fhriveird and black, being 

 dead ; but thofe which remain frelh 

 and plump, you may depend, are 

 join'd : And at this Time you fhould 

 loofen the Bandage, which, if not 

 done in Time, will pinch the Stock, 

 and greatly injure, if not deftroy, 

 the Bud. 



The March following you muft 

 cut off the Stock about three In- 

 ches above the Bud, Hoping it, 

 that the Wet may pafs off, and not 

 enter the Stock: To this Part of 

 the Stock left above the Bud, it is 

 very proper to faften the Shoot 

 "which proceeds from the Bud, and 

 would be in danger ot being blown 

 out, if not prevented: but this 

 muft continue on no longer than 

 one Year, after which it mud be 

 cut off clofe above the Bud, that 

 the Stock may be cover'd thereby. 



The Time for hioculat'mg is from 

 the middle of June until the mid- 

 dle of Auguji, according to the 

 Forwardness of the Seafon, and 

 the particular Sorts of Trees, which 

 may be eafily known, by trying 

 the Buds whether they will come 

 off well from the Wood. But the 

 moft general Ruie~is, when you 

 obferve the Buds form'd at the Ex- 

 tremity of the fame Year's Shoots, 

 which is a Sign of their having fi- 

 jiifh'd their Spring Growth. 



The firfl Sort commonly inocu- 

 lated is the Apricocky and the laft 

 the Orange-Tree, which fliould ne- 

 ver be done until the middle of 

 jiugufi. And in doing of this 

 "Work, you fhould always make 

 Choice of cloudy Weather : for if 

 it be done in the middle of the 



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Day in very hot Weather, the 

 Shoots will perfpire ^o fall, as to 

 leave the Buds deflitute of Moi- 

 fture. Nor ftiould you take off 

 the Cuttings from the Trees long 

 before they are us'd : But if you 

 are oblig'd to fetch your Cuttings 

 from fome Diffance, as it often 

 happens, you fhould then be pro- 

 vided with a Tin Inflrument, ha- 

 ving a Socket about ten Inches 

 long, and a Cover to the Top, 

 which mufl have five or fix Holes j 

 in this Socket you (hould put as 

 much Water as will fill it about 

 two or three Inches high, and 

 place your Cuttings therein in an 

 upright Pofiticn, fo that That Part 

 which was cut from the Tree may 

 be fet in the Water, and fo faften 

 down the Cover to keep out the 

 Air; and the Holes in' the Cover 

 will be fufhcient to let the Perfpi- 

 ration of thefe Branches pafs of; 

 which, if pent in, would be very 

 hurtful to them : And you muft 

 be careful to carry it upright, that 

 the Water may not reach to the 

 Budsi for it is a very wrong Pra- 

 (k'lCQ in thofe who throw their 

 Cuttings all over in Water, which 

 fo faturates the Buds with Moi- 

 fture, that they have no attractive 

 Force left to imbibe the Sap of 

 the Stock, whereby they very of- 

 ten mifcarry. 



But before I leave this Head, I 

 beg Leave to obferve, that tho' it 

 is the ordinary Practice to diveft 

 the Bud of that Part of the Wood 

 which was taken from the Shoot 

 with it ; yet in many Sorts of ten- 

 der Trees it is beft to preferve a 

 little Wood to the Bud, without 

 which they often mifcarry. The 

 not obferving this, has often occa- 

 fion'd fbme People to imagine that 

 fbme Sorts of Trees are not to be 

 propagated by Inoculation j where- 

 as. 



