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is a youvg tree of some sort or other, and the hud 

 is put into the bark on the side of this young tree 

 during the summer ; and not before the bud be full 

 and plump. The work may generally be done all 

 , through the months of July and August, and, per- 

 ■ haps, later. 



281. GRAFTING is the joining of a cutting of 

 one to another tree in such a way as that the tree, 

 on which the cutting is placed, sends up its sap 

 into the cutting, and makes it grow and become a 

 ,1 tree. Now, as to the way, in which this, and the 

 I way in which budding, is done, they cannot upon 

 any principle consistent with common sense, be- 

 come matter of written description. Each is a 

 mechanical operation, embracing numerous move- 

 ments of the arms, hands, and fingers, and is no 

 more to be taught by written directions than the 

 making of a chest of drawers is. To read a full 

 ' and minute account of the acts of budding and 

 grafting would require ten times the space of time 

 that it requires to go to a neighbour's and learn, 

 from a sight of the operation, that which, after all, 

 no written directions would ever teach. To bud 

 and graft, in all the various modes, form a much 

 nicer and more complicated operation than that of 

 I making a shoe ; and I defy any human being to 

 ji describe adequately all the several acts in the 

 making of a shoe, in less than two volumes, each 

 , larger than this. The season for taking off the cut- 

 l( tings for grafts, is any time between Christmas and 

 i| March. Any time after the sap is completely in a 

 I . quiescent state and before it be again in motion, 

 ji When cut oft they will keep several months. I 

 cut some here in January last (1819.) They 

 j reached England in March; and, 1 hear that they 

 t were growing well in June. A great deal has been 



