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ground for that purpose, or to some other more convenient support, 

 to prevent their being displaced thereby. 



The stocks and grafts are to remain for three months, or upwards, 

 before you unbind them; at the expiration of that time, take oft* the 

 clay and bandages, and if well taken, separate the graft from the 

 mother plant — being careful to do this with a perfectly sharp knife, 

 cutting it oft' with a slope downwards to the stock; and if not done 

 in grafting, the head of the stock must also be cut oft' close to the 

 graft, and afterwards the stem kept free from any under shoots. If 

 at this time the graft and stock, particularly if not extremely well 

 united, were tied again gently, as before, fresh clayed, and those 

 suft'ered to remain on for a month or five weeks, it would be of con- 

 siderable advantage. 



The walnut, tig, and mulberry, with many other trees, which 

 do not succeed by the common methods of grafting, will take free- 

 ly by this, and also various kinds of evergreens. It is in frequent 

 use to ingraft a fruit-bearing branch upon a common stock of the 

 same family, by which means you have a tree with much fruit, in a 

 few months, that would take perhaps as many years when left to 

 nature, before it would show a single one. This is frequently 

 practised on orange trees and other green-house plants. 



This method of grafting is not to be performed so early in the 

 season as the others, it being most successful when the sap is 

 flowing; in the middle states, I would recommend doing it towards 

 the latter end of April. But it is not to be practised where the 

 other methods will succeed; for trees propagated in this way are 

 always observed to grow more weakly, and never to the size of 

 those which are propagated by budding, or the other modes of 

 grafting. 



Grafting Peaches, Nectarines, and Jlpricots. 



Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, will succeed by grafting, but 

 propagating them by inoculation is much preferable; however, if 

 you graft them, let it be done early, always before they show flow- 

 ers, having their cions taken oft' three weeks previous to the time 

 of performing the operation, and deposited in the earth till that 

 period, as before directed for those of other fruit trees, in the choice 

 of which you must be very particular, so as to get the best ripened 

 young wood, round, plump, and short jointed, and with very little 

 pith; all these will take as freely on plump stocks as on then- 

 own kinds, and if intended for walls and espaliers, will be more 

 permanent, as they are not so subject to be destroyed by worms. 

 Grafting may be also performed, to any desirable extent, on most 

 kinds of forest and ornamental trees, such as elm, ash, oak, holly, 

 althea-frutex, &c. &c. whose cions are not soft-wooded, nor too 

 full of pith. 



Management of Fruit Trees grafted and budded la&i year. 



Those fruit trees which were grafted lasl year, should now havi 

 their shoots shortened, that they may send forth lateral branches i" 

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