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The befl: time for budding is in cloiidy weather, (thougli 

 not when it adiually rains) or in the evening of a warm dry- 

 day ; for if it is done in the middle of it, the flioots will perii^^ ire 

 fo fail as to leave the buds deftitute of moiflure. 



Budding is highly preferable to every operation for all kinds 

 of flone fruit, which, from all the other ways of grafting, are 

 very apt to produce a gum at the wounded part, witli whicn, if 

 the plants are once ever fo little infected, they never after ftoot 

 freely, or live long. It is likewife befl for moil of the nut-bear- 

 ing trees, many of which will fucceed in no other way than by 

 this, or inarching, and which, as has been faid, is rather an a- 

 mufing curiofity than any folid improvement., 



Th e manner of performing the different ways of grafting, has 

 been defcribed in various books on Gardening j and though for 

 that reafon I would not fpare a relation of it here, yet I hold it 

 altogether unnecefFary. Every regular-bred gardener is in- 

 flru6led in it as the firfl elements of his profefTion ; and fimple 

 as the operations are, I never knew them readily and fuccefsfully 

 executed by any who had not begun early in life : I therefore 

 advife all young and unexperienced gardeners, to apply for know- 

 ledge in grafting, to the pradlice of it, under the diredlion of an 

 able mafler, as other wife the mofl lively defcription will little a- 

 vail them. 



Th e flocks on which the different kinds of trees will fucceed^ 

 and others by which their fpecies will be improved, and their fruits 

 meliorated^ are already mentioned in. the culture of thefe trees. 



