On Uahing Apple Trees ^ and JSlahbg Cider. 105 



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lit for grafting; which is a "vvork that requires the iilinoj^t 

 care and skill of the nurseryman. 



Various are the methods of tliis art which have been used 



and recommended by different persons : but the mode of 

 grafting which the writer of this essay has found best to suc- 

 ceed, and wdiich is certainly well adapted to stocks of this 

 size, is that which is termod tvliip or splice grafting ; and is 

 thus performed. Some fourteen or twenty claj-s before tlie 

 tocks are to be grafted, take from some liealthy, fruitful 

 trees, of such kinds of apples as are intended to be propa- 

 gated, a sufficient number of shoots of the last year*; tie 

 them in separate bundles; label them; and put the larger 

 ends thereof about three inches deep in the earth, in some 

 exposed part of a garden, there to remain till they are want- 

 ed for use.f The 



* If it were of use to the respectable society I am ^vritlug to, I might give a list of 

 the names of ciuer-frult most iu esteem amongst us: such as the Styre, Redstreakj Pan- 

 son apple, Bonnet apple, Captain Nurse's kernel, Ilagley's crab, Elton's yellow, and 

 01(1 Quining, of Ilerefonlshire : the Cockagee, Golden pippin, Old Redstrcak, Roy- 



al Jersey, Cadbury apple, Castle pippin, Lemon pippin, and Salisbui-y apple, of Somer- 

 setshire : the Staverton lleditreak, Lidbrook ditto, Zachary's apple, Josey, Bittersweet, 

 Orchardton pippin, and Baccamore of Devonshire : to which may be added, the Mr^^^y, 

 ^larbrc, Double Pigeon rouge. Panache, Ecarlottc de le Precoce, Pommc de Keige, 

 Pomme de Cliatelet, Pommes des Normandy, and various others lately imported hither 

 from the European continent; but as names are accidentally or capriciously apidied, and 

 the characterlstlcks of apples thereby but Imperfectly denoted, it may be better to remark, 

 generally, that such apples (especially sour ones) as are of a yellow colour, and have red 

 streaks on the sun side, whatever their names may bo, are IndubiUibly the.best cider 



fruits. 



f The reason for taking the grafts from the t.^e, and thus exposing them before iul^. 

 are grafted to the stock, is, that the juices in their tubes may evaporate through the bark, 

 or be extravasated into the ground. Their tubes being in ?onie mr--tire thus emptied, 

 will the more freely admit the ascent of sap from the stock after their nnion. 







