218 FRUIT GARDEN. [jVlAR. 



When it is intended to have a variety of fruits 

 produced on the same tree, branches of different 

 sizes, and in various parts of the tree, may be graft- 

 ed, in either of the above-mentioned ways, as may 

 be most applicable to their sizes and situations. 

 Small shoots, or branches less than an inch in dia- 

 meter, may be done by whip-grafting. In all cases, 

 care should be taken to secure the grafts from acci- 

 dents, and to encourage their growth afterwards, by 

 properly improving the soil in which the stock may 

 happen to be placed ; as, particularly if it be a 

 wall-tree, it is much to be wished to have it fill its 

 space quickly, that the wall may again be furnish- 

 ed. 



From the middle of March to the middle of April, 

 according to the forwardness of the buds and state 

 of the weather, is the season for performing the above 

 operations. 



Of defending Fruit-Tree Blossoms. 

 The opening blossoms of the early kinds of wall- 

 trees should be defended from frost, and the bad ef- 

 fects of frosty winds, that now generally prevail, 

 particularly along the eastern coasts of these king- 

 doms. The early kinds only, however, and those 

 placed in the best situations, will as yet require at- 

 tention in this respect. The reader is therefore re- 

 ferred to next month, for full directions on the sub- 

 ject of screening the blossoms of all kinds of wall- 

 trees, however situated. 



