12<J BRANCH GRAFTINft. 



uniform head. I muft here remark to the praaitioner, when 

 he is preparing the tree as I direfted, that he fliould leave the 

 branches fufficiently long to allow of two or three inches to be 

 taken off by the faw, that all the fplintered parts may be 

 removed, 

 Pofitlon of the The trees being thus prepared, put in one or two grafts at 

 frafts. the extremity of each branch; and from this circumftance I 



wifli to have the method called extreme branch grafiing. 

 Cement and A cement, hereafter defcribed, muft be ufed inftead of clay, 



f o"^"d'''^''"^" ^"'^ ^^^ Si'^^^s ^^^^ w'^h ^^^^ °'" ^°^' ftrings. As there was a 

 Basement. confiderable quantity of mofs on the bodies and branches of the 



trees, I ordered my gardener to fcrape it off, which is 

 effeflually done when they are in a wet ftate by a flubbed 

 birch broom. I then ordered him to brufli them over with 

 coarfe oil, which invigorated the growth of the tree, a6led as 

 a manure to the bark, and made it expand very evidently ; 

 the old cracks were foon, by this operation, rendered in- 

 vifible 



All wounds (houldbe perfedlly cleaned out, and the medica- 

 tion applied as defcribed in the Orchardift, p. 14. By the 

 beginning of July the bandages were cut, and the flioots from 

 the grafts fliorlened, to prevent them from blowing out. I 

 muft here, too, obferve, that all the (hoots or fuckers from the 

 tree muft enjoy the full liberty of growth, till the fucceeding 

 fpring, when the greater part muft be taken out, and few but 

 the grafts fuffered to remain, except on a branch where the 

 grafts have not taken : in that cafe, leave one or more of the 

 fuckers, which will take a graft the fecond year, and make 

 good the deficiency. This was the whole of the procefs *. 

 Great advan- By obferving what is here ftated, it will appear that the 



riges of leaving j^gg remains nearly as large when the operation is finiflied, as 

 the tree of its , , . i i /• r 11 1 1 • • /, 



full fize. 't was before the butinels was undertaken ; and this is a moft 



effential circumftance, as no part of the former vegetation is 



loft, which is in health fit to continue for forming the new 



tree. 

 —and increafing It is worthy of notice, that when the vivifying rays of the 

 its powers. ^^^ \\SL\e^ caufed the fap to flow, thefe grafts inducing the fluid 



through the pores to every part of the tree, will occafion in- 



* The fyftem fuccceds equally well on pear, as alfo on cherry 

 trees, provided the medication is ufed to prevent the cherry tree 

 from gumming. 



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