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them to any reasonable distance in good condition 

 for inoculating. 



It is a very improper practice of many persons, 

 to throw their cuttings into water ; for this so sa- 

 turates the buds with moisture, that they have no 

 attractive force left to imbibe the sap of the stock ; 

 for want of which they very often miscarry. 



But before 1 quit this subject, I beg leave to 

 observe, that, though it is the ordinary practice 

 to divest the bud of that part of the wood which 

 was taken from the shoot with it ; yet, in many 

 sorts of tender trees, it is best to preserve a little 

 wood to the bud, without which they often fail. 

 The not observing this has occasioned some people 

 to imagine, that certain sorts of trees are not to be 

 propagated by inoculation ; whereas, if they had 

 performed it in this method, they might have suc- 

 ceeded, as I have several times experienced. 



The next thing necessary to be known by those 

 who would practise this art is, what trees will take 

 and thrive, by being grafted, or inoculated, upon 

 each other ; and here there have been no sure di- 

 rections given by any of the writers on this sub- 

 ject J for there will be found great mistakes in all 

 their books, in relation to the matter ; but, as it 

 would extend this article too far, if all the sorts of 

 trees were to be here enumerated which will take 

 upon each other by grafting or budding, I shall 

 only give such general directions as, if attended 

 to, will be sufficient so to instruct persons, as that 

 they may succeed. 



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