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The above is the general way of grafting in 

 large nurseries about London ; but where small 

 quantities only are wanted to be grafted, the 

 grafter may tie his own grafts, and one boy 

 will serve both to dab and close. 



I have treated as fully as possible on grafting 

 of apples, as it will serve for most other fruits* 

 for this practice of grafting, is far preferable to 

 saddle or rind grafting for fruit trees. 



MANAGEMENT OF GRAFTS. 



Par. 5. We next proceed to the manage- 

 ment of grafts, which it is necessary to^ pay 

 great attention to. 



The grafts will not require any thing to be 

 done to them till they have grown five or six 

 inches long, unless suckers should breakout 

 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 dan- 

 gerous 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 op- 

 portunity after rain and the clay is wet, to go 



