OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. ^3 



pared off with a slope, about three inches in length, 

 and the same of the cion, or graft. 



This metliod of grafting is not performed so early 

 in the season as the others ; it being done in the 

 month of April, when the sap is flowing, at which 

 time the cion and stock will join together, and unite 

 much sooner than at any season. 



The Walnut, Fig, and Mulberry, will take by 

 this method of grafting, but neither of these will 

 succeed in any of the other methods ; there are 

 also several sorts of evergreens that may be propa- 

 gated by this method of grafting ; but all the trees 

 that are grafted in this way are weaker, and never 

 grow to the size of those which are grafted in the 

 other method; therefore this is rarely practised, 

 but on such sorts of trees as will not take by the 

 other methods. 



Observations on Grafting, 



In a long continuance of dry weather the grafts 

 very frequently fail of taking ; sometimes, no doubt, 

 owing to the improper choice of the grafts, as well 

 as to the dry weather. Great care should always 

 be taken not to graft with weak shoots, particularly 

 those taken from near the top. Always take your 

 grafts from the lower end of the shoots, and ob- 

 serve that the wood is plump and fresh ; for such 

 as are shrivelled seldom or never take. Where any 

 have missed in the Spring, I would advise to cut 

 off, about the middle or latter end of June, some 



