zzb TREATISE 



Th e grafts of all hardy trees are the better to be cut three or 

 four weeks, and laid in a fliady border fix or eight inches deep, 

 before grafting : Such, which the gardeners call thirfty grafts, 

 are ever found to unite fooner, and more certainly, than when 

 the circulation of the fap is equally brilk in both the graft and 

 ilock • and I never had more fuccefs, than with grafts that were 

 fo much flirivel'd in the bark, and feemingly withered, as to be 

 thought only fit for the fire by fuch as were unfkil'd in the 

 art. 



Where your ftocks are ftrong, that is, not lefs than half an 

 inch diameter, a ftout flumpy graft with thick-fet plump buds, 

 is much to be preferred to a flender one, for the luxuriant growth 

 of all hardy Foreft-trees ; but where bloffoms and fruit are foon 

 deiired, or the tree meant to be dwarfed, the reverfe muft be ob- 

 ferved. 



The grafts being cut and laid by the heels, their covering 

 ought next to be prepared, by colleding the quantity neceffary 

 of ftrong, fat, loamy clay, to which add a fifth or fixth part of 

 new-made horfe-dung, mix'd with fome hay or ftraw cut very 

 linall, which will bind the whole better together, and prevent 

 its rending and falling off the trees. Thefe muft be well blended, 

 by often beating, and pouring water on them every fecond or 

 third day, till they become folid and well incorporated ; after 

 which the whole fliould be hollow'd in form of a difli, not expofed 

 to froft or drying winds, and kept moift by regularly pouring 

 Avater on it as it becomes dry, till it is ufed. 



Th e inftruments neceffary for the different operations are : 



