SECT. VII. OF GRAFFING. 9l 



to four that are well placed ; i. e. with a lateral direc- 

 tion for the wall. 



Though the longer inoculation is deferred, the riper 

 die fhoots will be for furnifhing buds; yet there is this 

 advantage in beginning as early as may be, that if the 

 budding appears not to have taken, the work may be 

 done again before the feafon is out. Or, to injure 

 fuccefs, two buds may be inferted in the fame flock, 

 (but not in a dire&ion under one another) and it both 

 fail this year, the Hocks may do again the next, as the 

 heads in grafting by inoculation are not to be cut off 

 till the fpring following, becaufe the inferted buds do 

 notpufh till then, when they will grow off apace: In 

 a very early inoculation, the bud may fhoot the fame 

 year ; but it then comes weak, and will hardly endure 

 a fevere winter* 



Let the cions to procure buds for inoculation, be 

 taken oniy from the outfide branches of healthy and 

 Jruitjul trees. If early b idding be attempted, it will 

 be proper to cut off fome fpare fhoot, (not fit for the 

 purpofe,) to try firft whether the bark will yet readily 

 part from the wood. 



Thejeajon being right, and the cions at hand, having 

 a fharp narrow bladed knije, and neat tough wet bajs, 

 fet about the work adroitly, for the quicker it is done 

 the better ; but " make no more hafte than good 

 fpeed." Keep the bud, as much as may be, from Jun 

 and wind: they muff not be taken from the upper part 

 of the cions, as the bark and buds there are too raw. 

 If cions, or buds, be brought from any diftance, they 

 fhould be conveyed in damp (not wet) mofs, or grafs, 

 and never kept above a day and night, but the fooner 

 they are ufed the better. 



Before the buds are prepared, get the ftock ready to 

 receive them, by taking off lateral fhoots, leaving an 

 uncut fingle ftem. At the part fixed on for the inocu- 

 lation, (which fhould be fmooth, and rather on the 



north 



