THE SCOTS GARDENER 



not well otherwayes ; but herein the stock must be 

 placed so near the tree where the graffs are, that 

 the branch may reach it; then you may clift or 

 shoulder-graff the twig you mean to propagate into 

 the stock ; and as soon as graff and stock do unite 

 and are incorporated together, cut off the cyon or 

 graff underneath, close to the graffed place, that 

 it may subsist by the stock only. 



Root-graffing is, to take the twig of any tree you 

 mean to propagate, and a piece of root of the same 

 kind, cut and raised up a little, and graff them by 

 shouldering, uniting the butt-ends of graff and root, 

 causing the rind of the root joyn to the rind of the 

 graff, and so bind them. The next year they may 

 be transplanted to a nurserie : these will be easily 

 dwarfed, and readily hold ; besides that the defect 

 of stocks are supplied, and they are fit for trans- 

 portation. 



There are many other wayes, but these nam'd 

 are the most material. 



The time of grafting is, when the sap begins to 

 stirr in the spring ; you must begin earlier with 

 cherries and plumes, some later with pears, ending 

 with apples. 



Choice not your graff from such trees as are ill- 

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