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BRANCH GRAFTING. 



To fix the levers, put a fhore two feet fix inches fi-om the 

 wall, under the girder, to (upport it ; then cut off the decayed 

 end, and take out the templet, or part of the wall plate, if 

 decayed ; and put in a ftone templet for the irons to reft upon, 

 with mortices in the ftone to admit the claws of the lever : then 

 fit the collar underneath the girder, two feet from the wall, 

 to ahfwer the holes in the lever ; make an incifion in the joifts 

 three-fourths of an inch wide, and three inches deep, to 

 admit the levers ; fix the levers on each fide with the collar, 

 fo as to force up the levers together ; then with flight 

 Ihores force up the ends of both levers together, and fix the 

 fide-irons firm. The girder will thus be perfedly fate. 



The templet or wall plates, on which the levers reft, are 

 made of Portland ftone, three feet long, nine inches wide, 

 and five inches deep, with incifions or mortices made therein 

 for the claws of the levers. 



Certificates, confirming Mr. Woart's improvements, were 

 received from the commiiiioners of the navy, from Mr. Jofeph 

 Harris, fmith, at Putney, and Mr. George Smith, lurveyor, 

 at Putney. 



XIII. 



Account of the Method nf extreme Branch Grafting. By the 

 Inventor William Fairman, I'J'(j-* 

 SIR, 



IntrodnAory X ROM much converfation with Mr. Bucknall on the idea of 



uttttriTations on j,jjproving ftandard fruit-trees, we could not but remark that 



tbe oielels trees » o » 



^orchards. in apple orchards, even in fuch as are moft valuable, fome 



were to be feen that were ftinted and barren, which not only 



occafioned a lofs in the produftion, but made a break in the 



rows, and fpoiled the beauty and uniformity of the planta->^ 



tion. 



To bring thefe trees into an equal ftate of bearing, fize, 



and appearance, in a fliort time, is an obje6l of the greateft 



importance in the fyftem of orcharding, and alfo for the 



* In a letter to Charles Taylor, Efq. Secretary to the Society 

 of Arts, and inferted in their Memoirs for J 802. For which the 

 filver medal was awankd. 



recovery 



