MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 79 



which is wrapped round the bud ; for in that cafe you will 

 find the incifion opened, which very often occafions the death 

 of the bud. 



If nurferymen and gardeners would give this method a fair 

 trial, and ufe the fame Compofition as I ufe for curing defects 

 in trees, inftead of loam and horfe dung (which binds fo hard 

 as to prevent the rain and moifture from penetrating to the 

 graft to moiften the wood and bark), they would find that 

 the grafts would fucceed much better. The Compofition, for 

 this purpofe, fhould be rather fofter than grafting-clay gene- 

 rally is ; and, inftead of applying fo large a mafs as is gene- 

 rally done of clay, it need not, in moll cafes, be more than 

 two or three inches in circumference, 



