MANAGEMENT OF GRAFTS. 15 



MANAGEMENT OF GRAFTS. 



Par. 5. We next proceed to the management 

 of grafts, which it is necessary to pay great atten- 

 tion to. 



The grafts will not require anything to be done 

 to them till they have grown five or six inches 

 long, unless suckers should break out from the 

 stock before the graft shoots, which must be 

 carefully cut off and not pulled off, for by pulling 

 them off, you leave holes in the stock which the 

 insect is very fond of getting into, and of course 

 the bottom is the most dangerous part of the 

 tree to get the canker in ; therefore they should 

 be cut off as clean as possible, and when the 

 grafts have grown five or six inches long, you 

 should watch your opportunity after rain and the 

 clay is wet, to go over your grafts and take off 

 those clays which have grown out that length, as 

 they will then come off easy, and leave those 

 which have not grown out sufficient till another 

 time ; for if you take them off too soon, and hot 

 dry weather should ensue, they are very apt 

 to wither up ; if the weather should continue 



