THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



bearers, neither from such as have not come to bear 

 at all ; but from constant and well-bearing trees, 

 and the fairest and fullest of buds thereon. Let 

 them have a piece of the precedent year's shoot, 

 whereof make the tail and shouldering immediately 

 below the butt of young wood ; and if the stock be 

 large, make the graffs wholly of the last year's 

 shoot : and such (having blowing buds actually 

 upon them) I have seen bear fruit the same year. 

 But some old bearing trees yield no graffs ; where- 

 fore you may cut out some great branch, that it 

 may shoot anew ; or rather takeoff the same branch 

 by circumposition,and plant, and the new tree may 

 furnish you with graffs. Cut your graffs, ere they 

 sprout, and keep them or carry them with their 

 ends in clay, or dry in a box, their tops being cutoff. 



Inoculation differs from the former wayes of 

 graffing, and is most proper for apricoks and 

 peaches : any sort will more readily hold by this 

 than by graffing, except cherries ; they come quickly 

 to be a tree : for I had a plum shoot above six foot 

 ten inches the first year ; and tho' they miss, yet 

 the stock is not the worse. Therefore, 



In some convenient and smooth part of the stock, 

 at the same height as for graffing, with the pen-knife 



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