THE SCOTS GARDENER 



This a mid-summer as well as a spring work, and 

 very notable for propagating such as can scarcely 

 be otherwayes obtained. 



Grafting is to take a cyon of a tree, and place into 

 another, call'd the stock, fit to receive the same, 

 that the inward bark or rind of both may joyn, and 

 the saps unite, &c. Whereof there are several way es, 

 as, 



First, of grafting in the cleft ; saw off the head of 

 the stock in a smooth place, about half a foot above 

 ground, f or dwarf s and wall-trees ; as also standard 

 appleandpear,(fortheywillshootupforabody),but 

 betwixt three and four foot for standard-cherrie 

 and plumb. Pare its head ragled by the saw smooth ; 

 cleave it a little beside the pith, and with your pen- 

 knife cut away any jags, roughness, or blackness, 

 that remaines after cleaving on each side the cliff 

 within ; then prepare the graff , by cutting on both 

 sides from some knot or bud in forme of a wedge, 

 suitable to the clif t, with little shoulderings, not rag- 

 ling the end. For if the bark be raised at the tail or 

 lower end of the graff, especially the cherrie, it im- 

 pedes its growing ; cut off its top about three inches 

 above the shoulderings, close behind a leaf -bud, then 

 open the clif t with a grafting iron ; set the graff (or 



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