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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



you do not bind round the eye of the bud, which fhould be 

 left open. 



When your buds have been inoculated three weeks or a 

 month, you will fee which of them have taken ; thofe which 

 appear fhriveled and black are dead ; but thofe which remain 

 f re ih and plump, you may be fure are joined ; and at this 

 time you fhould loofen the bandage, which, if not done in 

 time, will pinch the flock, and greatly injure, if not dellroy,. 

 the bud. 



In the March following you muft cut off the flock about 

 three inches above the bud ; doping it, that the wet may pafs 

 off, and not enter the flock : to this part of the flock left 

 above the bud, it is very proper to fallen the moot which 

 proceeds from the bud, and which would be in danger of 

 being blown out, if not prevented ; but this muft continue no 

 longer than one year, after which it muft be cut off clofe 

 above the bud, that the flock may be covered thereby. 



The time for inoculating is, from the middle of June until 

 the middle of Auguft, according to the forwardnefs of the 

 feafon, and the particular forts of trees to be propagated ; 

 but the time may be eafily known, by trying the buds, whether 

 they will come off well from the wood, or not. However, 

 the mofl general rule is, when you obferve the buds formed 

 at the extremity of the fame year's fhoots, which is a fign of 

 their having finiilied their Spring growth. 



The firft fort commonly inoculated is the Apricot, and the 

 laft the Orange-tree, which fhould never be done until the 

 middle of Auguft ; and in doing of this work, you fhould 

 always make choice of cloudy weather ; for if it be done in 

 the middle of the day, in very hot weather, the fhoots will 

 perfpire fo fail as to leave the buds deftitute of moifture ; nor 



fhould 



