258 THE NURSERY. [March. 
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 them; at the expiration of that time, take off the 
clay and bandages, and, if well taken, separate the graft from the 
mother plant, being careful to do this with a perfectly sharp knife, 
cutting it off with a slope downwards to the stock; and if not done 
in grafting, the head of the stock must also be cut off 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 
considerable 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 many 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 prac- 
tised 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, its 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 Jlpricots. 
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 shew flow- 
ers, having their cions taken off three weeks previous to the time 
of performing the operation, and deposited in the earth till that pe- 
riod, 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 or espaliers, will be more per- 
manent, 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, ash, oak, holly, 
althea-frutex, &c. Sec. whose cions are not soft-wooded, nor too 
full of pith. 
Management of Fruit-Trees, grafted and budded last Fear. 
Those fruit-trees which were grafted last year, should now have 
their shoots shortened, that they may send forth lateral branches to 
form regular heads; if they are intended for espaliers or wall- 
trees, observe the method recommended in page 216; if for stand- 
