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1. A fmall liand-faw, to cut off the heads of large flocks. 



2. A good flrong pruning-knife, with a thick back, to make 



clefts in the flocks. 



3 . A fmall knife, made very fliarp, to cut the grafts. 



4. A grafting-chifel, and a fmall mallet. 



5. A wedge, to keep open the clefts in large flocks till the 



infertion of the graft. 



6. A bafs mat, or wodllen yarn, to tye the grafts cut in 



pieces at lengths proportioned to the bulk of the flocks. 



Since the firft invention of grafting, there have been many 

 various ways of performing it ; but the following has been 

 found the befl, and moft fuccefsful : 



1. Grafting in the rind, or Shoulder-grafting, which is only 



proper for trees two inches diameter or upwards. 



2. Cleft or Slit-grafting : This is proper for flocks from about 



three quarters of an inch to two inches diameter. 



3. Whip or Tongue-grafting : This, for flocks not exceeding three 



quarters of an inch diameter, is the mofl readily perform- 

 ed, and far mofl fuccefsful manner of any. By whip-graft- 

 ing, the wounded flock foon heals, and where the growth 

 is vigorous, in two years the flock and graft become fo 

 perfecftly united, that one will hardly difcover any incifion 

 having been made. 



4. Grafting by approach, inarching, or ablacflation : This is to 



be performed on plants in pots, or when the flock you 



