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OF GRAFF I N G. 



SECT. VII, 



In March, cut the head of the ftock off with a keen 

 knife, clofe behind the budding, in a fl oping direction; 

 fome leave three or four inches of the liock above the 

 bud till the following fpring, and it will ferve to tie the 

 new (hoot to, in order to keep it to a proper erect di- 

 rection. Suffer no fhoots from the ftock, but rub the 

 buds off as foon as they appear. It may be of ufe to 

 Jhade inoculated buds a few days by a leaf, or a bit of 

 paper. 



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Perfons defigning to graff, are apt to negleft cutting' 

 their cions till they get too forward, therefore remem- 

 ber to be in time, To do the work well, there mull be 

 good tools, &c. and particularly a keen knife. Choofe 

 as good a day as can reafonably be expefted, for bad 

 weather occafions hurry and embarraiTment ; but. defer 

 not too long on account of the weather. In handling 

 cions, take care of their eyes, that nothing bruifes them, 

 and particularly of the buds ufed for inoculation. 



Some motion of the Jap is proper at the time of all 

 grafting, but a. free motion is necelfary for the mode of 

 grafting in the bark, and as on the funny fide of the ftock 

 it moves freeft, and is the beft afpefl as to weather, 

 infertion of o-r^}, though not buds, if it can be avoided, 

 fhould be always on a part of the ftock inclining to the 

 Weft. Remember to take off, or at leaft to loofen, the 

 bandages on grafts, as foon as they have taken, Silver 

 (as a fruit knife) is beft to raife the bark with, or any 

 thing is preferable to iron. 



Though inoculation may feem the floweft mode of 

 propagating fruit-trees, it proves eventually the quicks 

 eft ; and is the moft certain way to produce free grow- 

 ing treei, with a well covered flock* The infertion of 



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