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lit to bud, which should be done about that time. 

 I would recommend leaving a little of the wood 

 on the inside of the bud when inserted into the 

 stock, rubbing in the Compotition, and tying on 

 the bass as before. 



Last Spring I grafted some Summer Bonchre- 

 tiens with the Bergamot de Paque (or Easter 

 Bergamot,) and Pear d'Auch, most of which failed. 

 I then cut them off below the grafts, and in July 

 following they had produced shoots from five to 

 six feet long, which I budded in the latter end 

 of that month with the before-mentioned sorts, 

 which all took. About the beginning of Sep- 

 tember I ordered a man to slacken the basses ; 

 which having left too loose, the barks began to 

 separate. I then made him tighten them, letting 

 them remain till the following Spring. About the 

 beginning of April, when I saw the buds begin to 

 shoot, I cut the shoots near to the buds, but 

 finding many where the bark had not united, and 

 some of the eyes apparently dead, I took a sharp 

 pen-knife and cut out all the decayed bark, 

 rubbing in the Composition, in the liquid state, 

 till the hollow parts were filled up ; I then 

 smoothed it off, with the finger, even with the 

 bark of the stock. I also rubbed some of the 

 Composition over those eyes that were in the 

 worst state, being quite black ; but with very 

 little hope of recovery. To my great astonish- 

 ment, many of those which seemed perfectly 

 dead, recovered, and, by the middle of July, had 



