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operation, to mark the parts where the 

 branch and Hock readily join, cut away the 

 bark and part of the wood two or three inches 

 lengthways, both as equal as pofTible, cutting 

 a fmall (lit or tongue in that part of the branch 

 iittdi another in the (lock, apply the cut parts 

 exactly, joining the tongue of the branch into 

 the ga(h in the flock, keeping the head of the 

 branch uprightifh ; bind them both clofe with 

 a ligature of frelh bafs, continued a little 

 above and below the cut joined parts ; and 

 then. clay the grafted parts clofely round over 

 Uie tying, that no air, wet or drought can 

 peneiratc ; placing alfo a firm flake, and to 

 which tye. the inarched branch, &c. fecure 

 ijgainil wind, &c. And as by Augufl afore- 

 faid it will be united with the Hock, then cut 

 the branch off from the mother- tree, floping 

 below the inarching and clofe to the flock, 

 continuing a flake to prefwve the branch from 

 being difplaced. 



Of the Green-Houfe plants, the American 

 aloes are fingular in not flowering till of a 

 great age, fuppofed near an hundred years, 

 difcovehng their efforts for flowering by the 

 central leaves beginning to open; and at which 

 time it is proper to affifl them, by plunging the 

 tubs containing the plants into a bark-bed or 

 other hot-bed, in the Spring or beginning of 

 Summer, the heat of which will forward their 

 growth confiderably, that the flower-Hem will 

 advance rapidly to its full height in three or 

 four monihs, producing a vail pyramid of 

 fiowerj. 



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