SECT. VII. 



OF GRAFFING. 



89 



it will fecure them better together. Bind and clay, 

 and if in open ground, fix a ftake to tie the work fo that 

 the wind may have no power over it ; a tie alfo to a neat 

 flick may be proper for thofe inarched in pots, &c. 



As foon as the graff has taken, which will be pro- 

 bably in four months, (except in the harder woods,) 

 let the head of the flock be fteadily cut off with a keen 

 knife, three or four inches above the binding, which 

 then removing, bind and clay again, to remain about a 

 month. In March following, cut off the branch from 

 the parent clofe to the graffing, and alfo the flub of the 

 ftock that was left. The head of the ftock is fome- 

 times cut off before graffing, in which cafe a floping 

 cut half way the thicknefs of the ftock, is to receive 

 the cion; but here the graff and the ftock muft be 

 both of a fize, or nearly fo. There has been this 

 dijlinclion made, to call it inarching when the head is 

 cut off, and approach graffing when it is not. Gar- 

 deners moftly prefer the former method. 



Budding or inoculation, though here lafl 

 mentioned, is the molt confiderable mode of propaga- 

 tion, and is a pretty fummer bufinefs. Apricots, peaches, 

 and neclarines are always propagated this way, and 

 plu?ns and cherries may be. Pears are fometimes 

 budded, and apples have been, but the fuccefs is un- 

 certain. Not only fruit, but forejl, and ornamental 

 trees and fhrubs are inoculated. The branches alfo of 

 trees as well as ftems are fometimes budded, which is 

 bell done on two years wood, though it may be on both 

 younger and older. 



Inoculation begins as foon as good fhoots with good 

 eyes, oi the prefent year can be had, (o that the feafon 

 may be reckoned from Mid-June to Mid-Auguji ; but 

 about Old Midfummer, or rather after, is the ufual and 

 bell time for the work : it fhould be done in a morning 

 or evening, (the latter rather beft), except the day be 

 cloudy, when any part of it will do. 



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