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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 try- 
ing 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 juices flow 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 will 
then start, and the shoots produced therefrom, not having a suffi- 
cient length of season to ripen the wood, will either be destroyed 
the ensuing winter, or so much injured as never to make good 
trees: therefore, budding ought to be performed on the respective 
kinds, at such periods as there will be no hazard of their growing 
before the ensuing spring, when they will have the advantage of the 
whole season for perfecting their wood, and of acquiring a sufficient 
strength and texture before winter. 
Apricots if worked on plum stocks, or on those of its own 
kind, should be budded in this month, but if on peach or almond, 
August will be a preferable period. 
Pears may likewise be inoculated late in this month, but as to 
peaches, nectarines, almonds, and apples, if done now, the insert- 
ed buds would shoot in the course of the present season, and conse- 
quently be of little value. 
The stocks of cherries, plums and pears, that were budded last 
summer, or grafted in spring, and that have miscarried, may now 
be inoculated with the same kinds of fruit, for those will succeed, 
either by grafting or budding. 
Budding generally succeeds best when performed in cloudy wea- 
ther, or in the morning or evening; for the great power of the 
mid-day sun, is apt to dry and shrivel the cuttings and buds, and 
prevent the free union, that might be expected immediately to take 
place in a favourable season; at all events, let the operation be pert 
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