Oil Raising Apple Trees^ and Maldng Cider. 107 



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In this state the whole must remam until the latter end 

 of June following;'^ at which time it will be necessary to 

 cut through the ball of clay, displace it, and carefully take 

 off the bass bandage ; when, to his satisfaction (if the form- 

 er operation was w^ell performed) the nurseryman will per- 

 ceive a perfect union of the graft and stock. If any extra- 

 neous shoots, around the stocks under the chay, should ap- 

 pear, they must he cut off with a keen knife, or shpped 



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down with the fingers; and the whole clayed as before, hut 

 without any bass bandage. 



The graft must now be left to make its advances towards 

 a tree; which it will speedily do, with the few following 

 helps. Early in the ensuing spring, the second clay must 

 be taken off, and the stock cut slopingly away on the part 

 opposite the graft. Should the graft not advance perpen- 

 dicularly, it may be assisted by tying It to a small stake, fast- 

 ened in the ground, near the stock. The lateral spurs or 

 branches of the graft should not yet be taken off; as it is a 



known truth 



urishment by 



leaves, when in full verdure, as by the roots. But when 

 the graft has arisen to the perpendicular height of some- 

 what more than six feet, let it be stopped (in the month of 

 February) by cutting it off just above a bud of that height. 

 The upper six buds will, in the course of the succeeding 

 summer, form the ground-work of an apple tree head. This 

 young head must, in the next spring, be shortened to Tour 

 or five buds on each branch ; always observing to leave the 

 outer bud of each for the uppermost; thereby giving op- 

 portunity 



* Frequently slipping off such buds as break out from tbe stocks below the clay. 



