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gation, both in fruit-trees, and other tree 

 and fhrub kinds that are occafionally propa* 

 gated by grafting, i? performed in the Spring:, 

 in February, March, and beginning of April, 

 effeded by inferting young ihoots of the trees 

 intended to prrpagate into the top of the 

 ftock or ikm of young trees of the fame fa- 

 mily, the head of which being previoufly cut 

 off for the reception of the graft, either by 

 whiprgrafting, or flit-grafting, but of which 

 the :l;mer is the moi't cemmonly pradifed, 

 performed upon fmall llocks of half an inch 

 thick, or but little more ; and the latter upon 

 larger ftocks, of from half an inch to an incK 

 or inch and half thick in the part wherein thi^ 

 ^raft is to'' be infcrted. The whip-grafting, 

 however, is the moft generally praftifed in the 

 nurferies, both as the ftocks are fooner of a 

 proper fize on which to graft, the operation 

 more expeditioufly performed, and chiefl't^ 

 more-fucceisful : in either of which the graft^,^ 

 ing is occafionally performed low in the llock'/' 

 at fix inches to one or two feet from the bet-' 

 torn, for dwarf trees, rfnd at three, four, Vdi 

 iive or fix feet, for half and full Ibndards ; 

 the ftocks for grafting being generally raifed 

 from feed or fuckers of trees of the refpeclive 

 families from which the grafts are to be de- 

 tached, a.s jipple-ftocks upon which to graft 

 any fort of appies, .pear Itocks for pears, and 

 the fime oi others, and in all of which the 

 graft unites with the ftock in a month or fix 

 vceks, Icon after begins to ftioc-. above, and 



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