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foots asrun down, as alfo the tops and fide branches, placing them in 
rows, at four foot diftance; each kind apart, wherein a year or two 
moft of them will be ready to graft in the bud, the Plums, with the 
beft of cher own kind, and alfo with <Apricocks and Peaches ;the 
Cherries atéonly fit to be budded with other good forts of Cherries 5 
as for Suckers; they mutt be fet inthe Nurcery. after the fame man- 
ner, and after they are growato an inch Diameter; may convenient- 
ly be gratted in checlete; 
Gather your Grafts of Plums, Cherries,and Pears, from the middle 
of Fanuary,to thefame time in February, thofe ot Apples may ftay 
untill March: choofefuch as are of two faps, thar the old wood to 
the knot may: be placed in the ftock; thofe of one years fhoot will 
ferve in default of the other, but fuch will be longer before they come ° 
to bear, | 3 
fuch branches asare apteft ro bear, and then. fulleft of Fruit-buds; 
fuch Trees as are ill bearers, or not come to bear fruit, are to be we- 
jected , the Grafts always partaking the quality of the Tree from 
whence they are taken: Bind your Grafts in bundles, each fort by ie 
felf, and put them half way to the tops in earth, untill you ufe them, 
keeping an exact account of the kinds, that you benot miftaken 
in your fruits, asfor the feveral ways of grafting them, it is to 
be performed with much exaétnefs, in manner following, a4, 5 
Grafting (as we are taught by common experience) is the artificial 
Placing the Cyen, or Gra‘t of one kind, upon the ftock of another, 
foasthefap.of the Stock may without impediment come to nouriih 
the Graft; itis therefore expedient in this operation (the Saps paf- 
fing betwixt the bark and the wood) that they be exaétly joyned, 
which is effeéted four feveral ways, & 
The firft and moft known is grafting in the Cleft, Plums atid Cher- 
vies about the new Moon-in February, Pears in the beginning of 
March, and Apples a fortnight or three weeks after : Firft, {aw off the 
head of the ftock, in a {mooth place, for Wall-trees, within four. fins 
gers of the ground, in Standards much higher, according to the growth 
of the ftock; pare away with your knife the roughnefs the faw -hath 
left, thencleave the head alittle befides the pith, and put therein 
along wedge of hard wood to keep the cleft open, which cat {mooth 
with the point of your knife, that the fides may be eaven, then, cut 
the Graft on both fides froma knot or bud, im form of a wedge, in 
length proportionable co the cleft , with thoulderings, which. place 
therein, fo as the Saps may exactly joya,  Laftly, cover the Head 
with clay well cempered with Horfe-dung, and leave not.the Grafts 
too long, | ee er eigt ae 
The fecond way is called Shoulder, ot Whip-grafting, fit. ily for 
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