8 TREATISE 



WG\i]d graft on, and the tree from which you take your 

 .graft, Hand, or can be brought fo near together that they 

 may be joined : But inarching is only proper for tender 

 and exotic plants, as from this operation they never become 

 vigorous hardy trees, though, to bring about the fudden 

 produdlion of flowers and fruit, no pradlice has yet been 

 found fo fuccefsful ; and you may even inarch trees with the 

 blolToms and fruit upon them, but this is committing vio- 

 lence, and it is better to allow an intimate x:onjun6lion, by 

 a free circulation of the fap, before you admit of their 

 bearing any quantity of fruit at leaft, which confiderably 

 impairs the Hrength of all young new-planted or new- 

 grafted trees. This method is to be performed three or four 

 weeiks later than any of the preceding ways, and when the 

 juices are in high circulation. 



Grafting in the root : This is of much later invention than 

 any of the former ways, and, in many circumftances, may 

 be an improvement on them all. It is performed by cut- 

 ting the clean fmooth roots of the flocks in pieces five or 

 fix inches long, and as large, or a little larger, than the 

 graft of the fame fpecies you are to put in it : Let them 

 be whip-grafted and tyed together very ciofe, fo as to pre- 

 vent the wet from affedling the wounded parts, and plant 

 them fo deep, that the graft, which fliould be four or five 

 inches long, may be about one half buried under the furface. 

 This is an admirable practice, both for improving the flavour 

 of fruits, and preferving a nearer fimilitude to the tree 

 from whence you took your grafts ; for by this means the 

 grafts will root, and thefe roots increafe as well as thofe 

 from the flock : Hence, as all plants mufl draw much 



