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vou will fee which of them have 

 taken ; thofe of them which appear 

 fhrivelled and black, being dead ; 

 but thofe which remain frefli and 

 plump, you may depend, are joined : 

 and at this time you mould loofen 

 the Bandage; which, ifnotdonein 

 time, will pinch the Stock, and 

 greatly injure, if not deftroy, the 

 -Bad. 



The March following you muft 

 -cut off the Stock about three Indies 

 above the Bud, floping it, that the 

 Wet may pafs off, and not enter the 

 Stock : to this Part of the Stock left 

 above the Bud, it is very proper to 

 fallen the Shoot which proceeds from 

 the Bud, and would be in Danger of 

 being blown out, if not prevented : 

 but this muft continue on no longer 

 than one Year ; after which it muft 

 be cut off clofe above the Bud, that 

 the Stock may be covered thereby. 



The time for Inoculating is, from 

 the middle of June until the midJle 

 of Augufti according to the For- 

 wardnefs of the Seafon, and the par- 

 ticular Sorts of Trees ; which may 

 ,be eafily known, by trying the Buds 

 whether they will come off well from 

 the Wood. But the mol general 

 Rule ir, when you obfervc the Bads 

 formed at the Extremity of the fame 

 Year's Shoots, which is a Sign of 

 their having finifhed their Spring 

 Growth. 



The firft Sort commonly inocu- 

 lated is the Apricot ; and the laft 

 the Orange-tree, which fhould never 

 be done until the middle of Aug" ft. 

 And in doing this Work, you fhould 

 make choice of cloudy Weather ; for 

 if it be done in the middle of the 

 Day, in very hot Weather, the 

 Shoots will perfpire fo fail, as to 

 leave the Buds deftitute of Moiiture. 

 Nor fnould you take off the Cut- 

 tings from the Trees long before 

 -fchey are ufed : but if you are obli- 



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ged to fetch your Cuttings from fome 

 Diftance, as it often happens, you 

 mould then be provided with a tin 

 Inftrument, having a Socket about 

 ten Inches long, and a Cover to the 

 Top, which muft have five or fix 

 Holes ; in this Socket you mould 

 put as much Water as will fill it 

 about two or three Inches high, and 

 place your Cuttings therein in an up- 

 right Portion, fo that that Part 

 which was cut from the Tree may 

 be fet in the Water, and fo fallen 

 down the Cover to keep out the Air; 

 and the Hole? in the Cover will be 

 fufheient to let the Perfpration of 

 thefe Branches pafs off ; which, if 

 pent in, would be very hurtful to 

 them : and you muft be careful to 

 carry it upright, that the Water 

 may not reach to the Buds ; for it is 

 a very wrong Practice in thofe who 

 throw their Cuttings all over in Wa- 

 ter, which fo faturates the £uds with 

 Moifture, that they have no attra- 

 ctive Force left to imbibe the Sap of 

 the Stock, whereby they very often 

 mifcarry. 



But before I quit this Head, I beg 

 Leave to oblerve, that tho' it is a 

 Pra£lice to divert the Bud of thac 

 Pare of the Wood which was taken 

 from the Shoot with it ; yet, in 

 many Sorts of tender Trees, it is 

 beft to preferve a little Wood to the 

 Bud, without which they often mif- 

 carry. The not obferving this, has 

 occasioned fome People to imagine, 

 that fome Sorts of Trees are not to 

 be propagated by Inoculation; where- 

 as, if they had perform'd it in this 

 Method, they might have fucceed- 

 ed, as I have feveral times experi- 

 enced 



INTYBUS. Vide Endivia. 

 JOHNfSONf A. 



The Title of this Genus was gi- 

 ven by the late Dr. T&otttjtt Dale, of 

 Carolina, in Memory of Dr, John- 

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