MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



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fh rive led feldom or never take. Where any have miiTed in 

 the fpring, I would advife to cut off, about the middle or 

 latter end of June, fome fine healthy grafts of the fort that 

 you wifh to graft with, open the bark in the fame manner as 

 you do for budding (of which hereafter), and infert the graft 

 with a piece of the former year's wood on it : after you have 

 done this, rub in, with a brufh, fome of the Compofition in 



liquid flate ; then wrap your bafs round it, as is done for 

 Spring grafting, leaving about three eyes on the fhoot, which 

 fhould be tied on with the bafs as tight as you can ; then 

 cover the outfide of the bafs, thus tied up, with the Compofi- 

 tion to the thicknefs of about one eighth of an inch, obferving 

 alfo to cover the end of the fhoot with the fame, to exclude, 

 the air and wet. In about three weeks? or a month, look 

 over the grafts to fee if they have taken. When the graft 

 begins to fwell, it will throw off the Compofition : when that 

 is the cafe, always remember to apply more, to prevent the 

 air from penetrating the incifion. 



In the month of September, you fhould examine whether 

 the wounds are all healed up, and the two barks perfectly 

 united ; if they are, you may flacken the bafs ; and if they 

 are perfectly healed up, it may be taken off : but if not, the 

 bafs mud again be tied on, and covered with the Compofition 

 as before directed ; letting it remain till the following Spring. 

 You may then take the bafs off; and, if you find that the two 

 barks have feparated during the Winter, With the point of a 

 fharp knife, cut out all the brown part of the bark (which, 

 if left, would infallibly bring on the canker), and rub the 

 Compofition into the wound. If your grafts have produced 

 ftrong leading fhoots, the tops of them ihould be pinched off 

 with the finger and thumb ; but if they have not fhot ftrong, 



they 



