§2 



OF GRAFFING. 



SECT. VII* 



north fide) cut the bark through to the wood, in form 

 thus, T, the crofs and the down flit being of the length 

 neceffary to take in the bad, which may be cut with 

 from one to two inches of bark; putting the point of a 

 knife (or fome inftrument rather not of iron or fteelj 

 in to the top of the down cut of the flock, raife the 

 bark all the way to the bottom, fo that it will/'//? re- 

 ceive the bud eafily. There are knives made on pur- 

 pofe for budding with flat ivory hafts. 



To procure proper buds+^ut your knife in (fuppofe) 

 about three fourths of an inch above the eve, and with 

 a Hope downwards cut the cion half through, then do it 

 at the fame diftance below the eye, and doping it up- 

 wards cut up the middle of the wood, till the knife 

 meets the upper incifion, fo the eye, or bud,, will be 

 dire&ly in the middle. 



The next ftep is r to feparate the wood from the 

 bark, which is to be done thus : with your nail, or the 

 point of a knife, loofen the bark at the top, and ftrip it 

 from the wood ; or rather with a fwan or large goofe 

 quill, made in the torm of an apple fcoop, (having a re- 

 gular fmooth edge) pufh it down between the bark and 

 wood, preffing it againfl the wood. 



Examine the iufide of the bark v and if there is a 

 cavity juft behind the eye > or bud* it is good for nothing, 

 and another mull be procured ; for the cavity fhews^ 

 that the rati of the bud is with the wood, inftead of 

 being with the bark. 



The leaf that grows by the eye is to be cut down to 

 near its footftpjik, fo as to leave only a little bit of it to 

 hold the bud by while inserting it in the flocks 



See that the bark of the ftock is loofened a proper 

 length and breadth, and if, when the bud is put in, it 

 fhould prove a little too long, cut the fpare part off; 

 fo that the top of the bud (being fquared) falls in ftrait 

 with the crofs cut of the ftock, Thus fixed, b:na it 

 moderately tight in its place with the wet bafs, begin- 

 ning at the bottom, and paffing by the bud, go on to 



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