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New Principles of Gardening. 
grafting of darge Stocks or Trees, as are too large to cleave, as 
in Stock-Grafimmg. And, laftly, Inarching or Grafting by Ap- 
proach, wfed chiefly for Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, &c. 
The Time or Seafon for Grafting, is all February, March, 
and about one Weck in 4pri/. The firft you begin with mutt 
be Cherries and Plumbs, they being forward Fruits, after them 
Pears, and, laftly, Apples. 
In the Choice of Czons or Cuttings for Grafting, you mutt 
obferve to take them from fuch Trees as are good Bearers, and 
from fuch Parts of the Tree, as is truly vigorous and healthy, 
and fuch Shoots as are fulleftof Buds. Note, that the /a/f Years 
Shoot is what youare to ule, and not thofe of two or three Years 
And further obferve, that ’tis beft to cut of your Cious or 
Grafts a Month before you ufe them, and lay them in Earth, 
half ‘buried, during that Time ; but obferve to lay the Bottom 
End inthe Ground, inftead of the Top. 
By Midfummer your Stock and Graft will be grown toge- 
ther; and then they require to have their Bandage taken away, 
that they may have free Liberty to thrive and profper. 
Secondly, Inoculation, (called by Gardeners, buddin 5) by 
which is raifed Peach-Trees, Neétorines, Apricots, Chervien, 
Plumbs, Pears, Apples, &c. 
The Seafon for this Work, is from the Beginning of Fune, 
to the Middle of Augu/?; and ’tis beft performed very early in 
@ Morning, in the Cool of an Evening, or in cloudy Weather, — 
for hot Weather is very prejudicial to the Buds and Bark of the 
Stocks, during the Operations. : 
Great Care muft be taken to w#bind the Buds in due Time, 
which may be known by the Swelling of the Stock, above and 
below the Bud. Thofe Trees, as you bud early, may be unbound 
at fixteen or eighteen Days after Inoculation: and thofe, as you ~ 
you bud late, fomewhat longer. In the Spring following you 
muft cut off the Heads of the Stocks, about one Inch and half 
above the Bud, after which your Bud will fprout out, and 
make a handfome Tree. N. &. It is ufval to put in two or 
three Buds in each Stock, at proper Diftances, in a f{mooth Part 
of the Stock, for Fear of a Mifearriage, and bud them fuch a 
Height above Ground, as to leave Room underneath, to bud 
them again the next Year, in Cafe they mits the firft. There 
are divers Sorts of Peaches as takes very well, and others very 
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