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will firft defcribe the manner of cementing 

 on the brafs collar b, to the ftem of the 

 Vine, in which I have been often diiappointed, 

 and have met with difficulties; itmuft there- 

 fore be done with great care. 



Where I defign to cue the Hem, I firft 

 pick off all the rough ftringy bark carefully 

 with my nails to avoid making any wound 

 thro' the green inner bark 5 then I cut off 

 the branch at /, (Fig. 21.) and immediately 

 draw over the ftem a piece of dried fheeps- 

 gut, which I tie faft, as near the end of the 

 ftem as I can, fo that no fap can get by it, 

 the fap being confined in the gut if: Then 

 I wipe the ftem at i very dry with a warm 

 cloth, and tie round the ftem a ftiff paper 

 funnel x /, binding it faft at x to the ftem , 

 and pinning clofe the folds of the paper from 

 x to i: Then I Hide the brafs collar r over 

 the gut, and immediately pour into the pa- 

 per funnel melted chalk cement, and then 

 fet the brafs collar into it -, which collar is 

 warmed, and dipped before in the cement, 

 that it may the better now adhere : When 

 the cement is cold, I pull away the gut, and 

 fcrew on the glafs tubes. 



But finding fome inconvenience in this 

 hot cement, (becaufe its heat kills the fap- 



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