404 Directions for preserving Buds of Fruit Trees, fyc. 



I did not usually receive the buds from Belsay Castle, the 

 seat of Sir Charles Monck, in Northumberland, in less 

 than five or six days ; and the leaf stalk had then often parted 

 from the buds ; and the bark could not very readily be de- 

 tached from the wood. The latter substance was therefore 

 suffered to remain ; but it was pared very thin, particularly 

 such part of it as extended above the bud ; and as the loss 

 of the leaf-stalk deprived me of the usual method of holding 

 the bud, I found it necessary to suffer that to remain attached 

 to the branch above it, or to a part of it, till I had placed the 

 bud in its proper position ; it was then severed from the 

 branch with a sharp knife, and the bud almost always suc- 

 ceeded as well as one recently taken from the tree would 

 have done. 



