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nectarines, cherries, plums, &c. as also upon oranges 

 and jasmines, and is preferable to any sort of grafting. 

 Tile method of performing it is as follows: You must 

 be provided with a sharp penknife, having a flat haft, 

 (the use of which is to raise the bark of the stock to 

 admit the bud ,) and some sound bass mat, which should 

 he soaked in water, to increase its strength, and make 

 it more pliable; then having taken off the cuttings of 

 the tree you are to propagate, you should choose a 

 smooth part of the stock about five or six inches above 

 the surface of the ground, if designed for dwarfs; but 

 if for standards, they should be budded six feet above 

 ground; then with your knife make a horizontal cut 

 across the rind of the stock, and from the middle of that 

 cut make a slit downwards about two inches in length, 

 so that it may be in the form of T; but you must be 

 careful not to cut too deep, lest you wound the stock. 

 Then having cut off the leaf from the bad, leaving the 

 foot stock remaining, you should make a cross cut 

 about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife 

 slit off the bud, with part of the wood to it. This 

 done, you must, with your knife pull oiF that part of 

 the wood which was taken with the bud, observing 

 whether the eye of the bud be left to it or not, (for 

 all those buds which lose their eyes in stripping should 

 be thrown away, being good for nothing.) Then, hav- 

 ing gently raised the bark of the stock where the cross 

 incision was made, with the flat haft of your penknife, 

 cleave the bark from tlie wood, and thrust the bud 

 therein, observing to place it smooth between the rind 

 and the wood of the stock, cutting olF any part of 

 the rind belonging to the bud, which may be too long 

 for the slit made in the stock: And so having exactly 

 fitted the bud to the stock, you must tie them closely 

 j'ound Avith bass mat, beginning at (he under part of the 

 slit, and so proceed to the top, taking care that you do 

 not bind round tlie eye of the bud, which should be left 

 open. 



"When your buds have been inoculated three weeks 

 or a month, you will see which of them have taken, 

 those of them whicli appear shrivelled and black being 



