100 On Ratsing Ajiple Trees, and Ilahiiig Cider 



The nurseryman having mixed and well tempered with 

 water a sufficient quantity of strong clay, the new feces of 

 a horse which feeds on hay, and some fresli cow-dung, he 

 must betake himself to his nursery j where, standing on the 

 north side of a stock, he must place his 'left foot firmly on 

 the earth, close thereto, and with a strong pruning knife 

 take off the stock about five or six inches above tlie ground 

 in a sloping manner ; and on the south side, Avhere the bark 

 is clean, and free from knot;?, with a very keen pen-knife, he 

 must take off a thin slice of bark and w^ood, of two inches 

 or more in length. lie must then take his graft, and short- 

 on it to three or four buds, and from the part opposite the 

 lower bud but one, slope it down so as to match the thin 

 slice taken from the stock; and so place his graft and stock 

 ether, that the inner bark of each may coalesce : insert- 

 the bottom of the graft into a small plash-incision made 

 at the bottom of the slope of the stock: In this order he 

 must bind his graft and stock firmly together with a list of 

 bass-matting wetted; and then, by himself or assistant, sur- 

 round both with a ball of his tempered clay : taking care so 

 to close it about the stock and graft, as totally to exclude the 

 external air.- To prevent the clay being chapped by cold 

 winds or sun, it may be proper to wrap a thin layer of tow 

 round the ball of clay ; smoothing the whole with the hand, 

 dipped^ in water. Thus he will proceed until all his stocks 



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moderate : not during the time of very cold winds or open sun sbine. 



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 ^f. The labelhng the srafts (before n^cntioned) .as intended as au intimation of the 

 pronnety of so domfr. 



