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elaborated and concocted, and so disposed for a 

 more easy, plentiful, and perfect assimilation and 

 nutrition ; whence the cion must necessarily grow 

 and thrive better and faster than if it were put im- 

 mediately in the ground, there to live on coarser 

 diet and harder of digestion ; and the fruit pro- 

 duced by this further preparation in the cion must 

 be finer, and further exalted, than if fed imme- 

 diately from the more imperfectly prepared and 

 altered juices of the stock. It may, perhaps, be 

 thought unnecessary to say any thing here on 

 grafting, as it has been so fully treated of by 

 Mr. Miller, and other writers on gardening ; but, 

 as this Treatise is principally on pruning and train- 

 ing, grafting seems naturally connected with it. 



I persuade myself, therefore, that a few in- 

 structions in grafting will not be unacceptable, as 

 they may save the reader the trouble of turning to 

 other books ; especially as they are more parti- 

 cularly intended for the grafting of old trees, and 

 such as are found, when they come to bear, to be 

 a different sort from what was expected : for al- 

 though nurserymen in general are very careful in 

 these matters, yet through the inattention of their 

 men, or some mistake, or by an improper choice of 

 the sorts, it will frequently happen, that after wait- 

 ing thirteen or fourteen years, when the trees come 

 to bear, the fruit is found of a bad quality, and not 

 iit for use ; so that new grafting or budding is ab- 

 solutely necessary. 



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