442 THE NURSERY. [July. 
be filled with crude nourishment, and rendered of much less value 
for making good wine, as well as unpalatable. 
Towards the latter end of the month, the extremities of the fruit- 
bearing shoots maj be nipped oft", to check the too great luxuriancj 
of their growth, and to attbrd the bunches of grapes a greater por- 
tion of nourishment? but this ought not to be done too close to the 
fruit, as it would check the free ascent of the juices into those 
branches, by depriving them of the means of discharging such a 
portion thereof as is not convertible into wood or fruit: and more- 
over, though the fruit might by this means be swelled to a greater 
size, it would be more replete with watery particles, and less with 
that refined saccharine juice so pleasing to the palate, and so neces- 
sary for the making of good wine. 
Such shoots as are intended to be cut down in the pruning season, 
for next yearns fruiting, are by no means to be topped, but should 
be suffered to grow at full length, taking care to keep them con- 
stantly divested of any side branches, which ought always to be 
rubbed off" as they appear. Were those to be topped at this season, 
it would force out at an untimely period, many of the flower-buds 
which nature had designed for the ensuing year, and, consequently, 
at that time render the vines barren and unproductive. 
THE NURSERY. 
Budding or Inoculating. 
The budding or inoculating of cherries and plums, and all such 
other trees and shrubs as are subject to become bark-bound in 
autumn, is generally commenced in the middle states about the 
fifteenth of this month, earlier or later, according to the season or 
the quantity to be budded; these and others of the like nature 
should now be attended to, as they seldom work freely after the 
twenty-fifth of July. But this you may always easily know by 
trying the buds, and when they readily part from the wood, and 
also the bark of the stock rises or separates freely, then the work 
may be done. 
But let it be particularly remarked, that every kind of tree or 
shrub that makes new autumn shoots, or that continues in a free 
growth, or flow of sap, should be budded either in August or before 
the twentieth of September, according as each kind is early or late 
in ripening its wood, that is, to bud each sort before it becomes 
bark-bound; and likewise observe that all those kinds which are 
likely to become bark-bound early in autumn ought to be budded 
in this month, while the juice flows freely in the stocks and buds. 
If trees or shrubs are inoculated in the early part of this month, 
whose nature it is to take a second growth in autumn, the buds 
