96 On Apple Trees and Grafting. 



The best time or mode of cutting or transporting of 

 grafts a great distance, is a subject worthy investigation: 

 I have made a variety of experiments, and the result ra- 

 ther bewilders me than otherwise, I will relate some 

 facts and desire further information from those of more 

 knowledge and experience. 



1st. I have frequently had apple grafts sent to me 

 during the winter, from different parts of New England ; 

 my practice hath been on receiving them, to lay them 

 on the earthern floor of the cellar, — cover them with 

 earth until grafting time, and they have always grown 

 well. 



2d. Some years ago, I received in the latter part 

 of winter, some plumb grafts (from Esopus) that had 

 actually been imported from Holland ; they appeared 

 perfectly dry and dead ; — I buried them in the cellar, 

 grafted them in the spring, and they all grew, and bore 

 fruit the third year. 



3d. Several years ago I was from home, and calling 

 to see an acquaintance, he informed me, that he had 

 some grafts in his nursery of the French pomme roi 

 or king apple, which an acquaintance of his in Rhode 

 Island had imported from the south of France ; I was 

 anxious to obtain a cutting; it was then the 15th day of 

 September and dry warm weather, he gave me a twig, 

 about nine inches long in full leaf; I returned home two 

 days journey, ^vith it in my pocket ; when I reached 

 home it was withered, I laid it on the grass in my gar- 

 den, and turned a sod over it; there it lay until grafting 

 time, I then took it out, cut it into six short pieces, set 

 them, and they all lived and bore fruit the third year. 



