7? TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND , 



Some of the leaves will be found not quite rotten at the 

 bottom of the beds ; thefe may be mixed up with frefti dry 

 leaves from the park, garden, &c. and ufed for making 

 new beds. 



Of Grafting old Apple-Trees. 



It frequently happens, that, through fome miftake or other, 

 after waiting ten or twelve years for a tree to come into a bear- 

 ing ftate, it is then found that the fruit is neither fit for the 

 table nor kitchen ; in fuch cafe, we always graft them' the 

 following Spring, obferving to graft on the fmeft and 

 healthieft fhoots, and as near as poflible to the old graft, and 

 where the crofs-fhoots break out : by fo doing, you will have 

 fome fruit the fecond year ; and in the third, if properly ma- 

 naged, you will have as much as on a maiden-tree of fifteen 

 years (landing. 



The canker, if any, muftbe carefully pared off the branch, 

 and the fcion muft be taken from a found healthy tree. 



Whenever an incifion is made for budding or grafting, 

 from that moment the canker begins. I would, therefore, 

 recommend to thofe employed in budding or grafting, as foon 

 as the incifion is made, and the bud or graft inferted, to rub 

 in with the finger, or a brufh, fome of the Compofition be- 

 fore the bafs is tied on ; then cover the bafs all over with the 

 Compofition as thick as it can be laid on with a brum, work- 

 ing it well in. If this operation be performed in a proper 

 manner, and in a moift feafon, it will anfwer every purpofe, 

 without applying any grafting clay. 



This I have frequently done, and found it fucceed perfectly 

 to my wifhes. Obferve, not to flacken too foon the matting 



which 



