MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. t(>9 



fhould you take off the cuttings from the trees long before 

 they are ufed ; but if you are obliged to fetch your cuttings 

 from fome diftance, as it often happens, cut off the leaves, but 

 let all the footftalks remain, then wrap the cuttings up in wet 

 mofs and put them in a tin box (carrying them in a tin cafe 

 with water being now difufed) to exclude the air ; in this 

 manner you may carry them to any reafonable diftance in 

 good condition for inoculating. 



It is a very improper practice of many perfons, to throw 

 their cuttings into water ; for this fo faturates the buds 

 with moifture, that they have no attractive force left to im- 

 bibe the fap of the flock ; for want of which they very often 

 mifcarry. 



But before I quit this fubject, I beg leave to obferve, that, 

 though it is the ordinary practice to diveft the bud of that 

 part of the wood which Was taken from the fhoot with it ; 

 yet, in many forts of tender trees, it is beft to preferve a little 

 wood to the bud, without which they often fail. The not 

 obferving this has occafioned fome people to imagine, that 

 certain forts of trees are not to be propagated by inoculation ; 

 whereas, if they had performed it in this method, they might 

 have fucceeded, as I have feveral times experienced. 



The next thing neceffary to be known by thofe who would 

 practife this art is, what trees will take and thrive, by being 

 grafted, or inoculated, upon each other ; and here there have 

 been no fure directions given by any of the writers oh this 

 fubject ; for there will be found great miftakes in all their 

 books, in relation to the matter ; but, as it would extend this 

 article too far, if all the forts of trees were to be here enume- 

 rated which will take upon each other by grafting or bud- 

 ding, 1 fhall only give fuch general directions as, if attended 



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