SECT. VII. 



OF GRAFFING. 



85 



put in two cions, merely in cafe one fhould mifs ; but 

 it is not advifeable. It need hardly be obferved, that in 

 this cafe the crown muft be left whole. 



With refpeft to the time of performing this work, 

 remember that what has been faid relates to pears, 

 plums and cherries : apples cannot be graffed till the 

 beginning of March, or later, as the feafoR is, even 

 into April, for the fapmuft be on the move. 



Whip-graffing has the advantage of cleft- 

 graffing in neatnefs, and not requiring the flocks to be 

 fo old by a year or two, as very fmall ones will do in 

 this way ; for the ftock is directly covered by the 

 cion, and it takes with certainty if properly performed. 

 Cions fuitable to proper flocks cannot however always 

 be had. Stock and cion are to be both of a Jize, or 

 rather nearly fo, is better, the ftock having the ad- 

 vantage in bignefs ; for thus it is not fo likely to be 

 overgrown, as it happens when the cion is of a more 

 free nature. When the ftock is overgrown by the 

 cion, it will give it fome opportunity to thicken, by 

 flitting the bark through downwards, in two or three 

 places. This circumltance is not, however, material 

 in dwarf trees. 



Having cut the head of the ftock off, and the cion 

 to its proper length, Jlope the lower end of the cion 

 about an inch and a half, and to a point; then cut the 

 ftock to anfwer it, (the cut of the ftock however may 

 be a trifle wider and longer) bark againft bark, and lie 

 them together exaclly to their place, and clay it. But 

 for the greater certainty of keeping a cion to the part, 

 cut it fo as to leave a fmall Jhoulder at the top of the 

 Hope, and the ftock fo as to leave a narrow bit of its 

 crown to anfwer it, and to hold it. 



There is a fort of whip-graffing that has been deno- 

 minated Jlicing, or packing, which differs only from 

 the one juft defcribed, in that the ftock is of any fize; 

 and this is performed by cutting the cion to a face, as 

 before, and then taking off a flice from the (beheaded) 



ftock, 



