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ground for that purpose, or to some other more convenient support, 
to prevent their being displaced thereby. 
The stocks and grafts are to remain for three months, or upwards, 
before you unbind themj at the expiration of that time, take otF the 
clay and bandages, and if w^ell taken, separate the graft from the 
mother plant — ^being careful to do this with a perfectly sharp knife, 
cutting it oil' with a slope downwards to the stockj and if not done 
in grafting, the head of the stock must also be cut olT close to the 
graft, and afterwards the stem kept free from any under shoots. If 
at this time the graft and stock, particularly if not extremely well 
united, were tied again gently, as before, fresh clayed, and those 
suffered to remain on for a month or five weeks, it would be of con- 
siderable advantage. 
The walnut, fig, and mulberry, with many other trees, which 
do not succeed by the common methods of grafting, will take free- 
ly by this, and also various kinds of evergreens. It is in frequent 
use to ingraft a fruit-bearing branch upon a common stock of the 
same family, by which means you have a tree with much fruit, in a 
few months, that would take perhaps as many years when left to 
nature, before it would show a single one. This is frequently 
practised on orange trees and other green-house plants. 
This method of grafting is not to be performed so early in the 
season as the others, it being most successful when the sap is 
flowing; in the middle states, I would recommend doing it towards 
the latter end of April. But it is not to be practised where the 
other methods will succeed; for trees propagated in this way are 
always observed to grow more weakly, and never to the size of 
those which are propagated by budding, or the other modes of 
grafting. 
Grafting Peaches, Nectarines, and Apricots. 
Peaches, nectarines, and apricots, will succeed by grafting, but 
propagating them by inoculation is much preferable; however, if 
you graft them, let it be done early, always before they show flow- 
ers, having their cions taken oft" three weeks previous to the time 
of performing the operation, and deposited in the earth till that 
period, as before directed for those of other fruit trees, in the choice 
of which you must be very particular, so as to get the best ripened 
young wood, round, plump, and short jointed, and with very little 
pith; all these will take as freely on plump stocks as on their 
own kinds, and if intended for walls and espaliers, will be more 
permanent, as they are not so subject to be destroyed by worms. 
Grafting may be also performed, to any desirable extent, on most 
kinds of forest and ornamental trees, such as elm, asii, oak, holly, 
althea-frutex, &c. &c. whose cions are not soft-wooded, nor too 
full of pith. 
Management of Fruit Trees grafted and budded last year. 
Those fruit trees which were grafted last year, should now liave 
their shoots shortened, that they may send forth lateral branches to 
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