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C II A P T E Jl XXXIX, 



On grafting and INOCULATION. 



OF all the aids Nature has received from Art in the producli- 

 ons of the vegetable world, none has perhaps been more 

 aftonifhingly great and ufeful to mankind in the improvement 

 of gardening, than what has been derived from the culture of 

 trees and generous fruits, by grafting and inoculation. By this 

 happy difcovery, we can not only preferve every fpecies bounti- 

 fully beftowed on us by the great Aiithor of Nature, which 

 otherways, by inattention and floth, and without exerting that 

 Jcnowledge, would, many of them, have degenerated, by barely 

 fowing their feeds, but we have it alfo in our power, by the 

 pradice of thefe means, ever to improve the quality of thofe, the 

 noblefl gifts the earth affords us. 



I SHALL therefore mention the different ways of grafting 

 that are or have been ufually pradlifed, as, in certain cafes, all 

 of them may be ufeful, where overgrown flocks, or fuch as arc 

 not of a proper age and fize for one manner of operation, may 

 be accommodated to another ; and then notice the ways I have 

 found beft fuited to thefe different circumftances. But fome 

 time before proceeding to the execution, let the materials be 

 provided in the following manner : 



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