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CHAPTER XXII. 



OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



Four different Ways of Graft'ng, with Observations — On ufing 

 the Compojition, iniiead of Grafting-clay — Of Budding, with 

 Obfervalions, &~c. 



GrRAFTING Is the taking of a fhoot from one tree, and 

 inferring it into another, in fuch a manner as that both may 

 unite clofely and become one tree ; this is called, by the 

 antient writers in hufbandry and gardening, incifmn, to dif- 

 tinguilh it from inoculating, or budding, which they call 

 Injerere oculos, 



I have taken a great deal of pains to trace the practice of 

 grafting to its origin,; but without fuccefs, as no author that 

 I have perufed gives any fatisfaclory account of it ; it is, 

 however, allowed by all to be very antient. 



The 



