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or fucli as arc three cr four, to five or fix years 
growth, furnifhed with a tolerable head of branches, 
advanced to a proper age for bearing. 
The feafon for planting all the forts of thefe trees is 
either principally in the autumn, at the decay of the 
leaves, in OClober or November; and the fooner it is 
performed at that time the better; and they will h-.ve a 
good chance of linking root the fame feafon ; or plant¬ 
ed in the fpring months, about February and March, 
or not later than the beginning of April; though they 
may alfo be planted any time in open, mild, weather, 
from October till March. 
The propagation or methods of railing the diffe¬ 
rent forts of Plums and Cherries, is pnncip: 'y by 
grafting or budding the defirable or refpecave varieties 
upon {locks of their own kind, /. e. the Plums upon 
any fort of Plum {locks raifed from the Hone, of the 
fruit, or fuckers taken from the roots of old trees ; 
and the Cherries upon any kind of Cherry Itocks, 
raifed chiefly from the Hones of the Cherries; f r al¬ 
though Plum and Cherry trees may be raifed imme¬ 
diately from the Hones of the fruit, they neither bear 
fo foon, nor come with certainty of the defired 
forts, or, probably, not one in many produce good 
fruit; but grafting or budding, both continue the 
refpeCtive forts invariably the fame, and the trees alfo 
fooner attain a bearing Hate, and bear more abundant¬ 
ly, which is the cafe with moll other fruit-trees. 
Therefore, to raife fupplies of flocks on which to 
graft or bud Plums and Cherries, having a quantity of 
the Hones of the fruit, they lhould generally befowed in 
the autumn, in September, October, or November, or 
preferved in fand, till February, and fowed in beds of 
light earth an inch or two deep, either broad-caft and 
earthed in that depth, or in drills a foot dillance, 
they will come up in the fpring, in April or May ; 
which, next autumn, or fpring following, or when of 
two fummers growth at moll, lhould be tranfplanted 
from the feed-beds, in nurfery-rows two foot and a 
half afunder, in which to remain to acquire proper 
lize for grafting and budding; likewife fuckers of 
Plums, defigned for Hocks, lhould be planted in the 
fame order; and when the Hocks, both of feedlings 
and fuckers, are advanced in growth from half an 
inch to an inch thick, they are of proper fize to re¬ 
ceive the grafts and buds; or occafionally the opera¬ 
tion may be performed upon Hocks of fmaller flzes, 
of from that of a large goofe quill to half an inch 
thicknefs, efpecialiy for whip-grafting; training the 
whole with a clean. Angle Hem, five, to fix or feven 
feet high, for half and full flandards, and three or 
four for Dwarf or Common Wall-Trees and efpa- 
liers. 
VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
The operations of grafting or budding them is pet- 
formed, the former in the fpring, in February and 
March, and the budding in fummer, in July and be¬ 
ginning of AuguH, either of which methods of pro¬ 
pagation is eligible; and at the proper feafons a* 
above, chuiing grafts and buds of the defirable or in¬ 
tended varieties of the refpe&ive trees, obferving, for 
grafts, to take cuttings of the young Ihoots of lafi 
lummer’s production; and for buds, thefe mufi be de¬ 
tached from cuttings of the (hoots of the fame year; 
and in both of which, to perform the grafting or bud¬ 
ding h’gher or lower on the Hock, according as de¬ 
figned to have Hindards or dwarf trees; that for the 
former, lhould graft or bud upon tall Hocks, inferring 
the graft or bud, at fix feet height lor fuli ltandards, 
three or four for half, and at one or two feet for 
dv/arf-itandards; but for common wall-trees ar.d efpa- 
liers, the grafting or budding is performed low in the 
Hock, within fix or eight inches of the bottom, in or¬ 
der to obtain a proper Ipread of branches below, near 
to the ground, to cover the wall compleatly from the 
bottom upward; or occafionally, for half-flandard 
wall-trees, they are grafted or budded at three cr 
feur, to five or fix feet, whereby to have them furnifh 
an expanlion of branches at thefe heighths, and for 
planting between the Dwarf or Common Wall-Trees, 
to cover the upper part of high walls while the others 
are advancing below, and tnereby have all parts of 
the wall fooner and more effectually occupied. 
Having performed the grafting and budding at the 
proper feafons, as above, the grafts will flioot the 
fame year, but the buds not till the following fpring; 
and in both of which they will make firong Ihoots in 
one fummer, the grafts probably advance in two or 
three (hoots, and the buds commonly but one; and in 
both of which, when the faid firlt Ihoots are of one 
fummer’s growth, the trees may be tranfplanted, next 
autumn or fpring, into the garden, orchard, &rc. 
where they are finally to remain, or continue two or 
three years longer in thenurfery, to form larger heads 
of feveral branches; but in either of which generally 
obferve, that when the above faid firlt (hoots produced 
from the grafts and buds, are a year old, next fpring 
it is proper, either if tranfplanted into the garden, &c. 
or remain in the nurfery, to cut them down to a few 
eyes, in March, efpecialiy the bud-flioots, or alfo the 
grafts, when only one or two (hoots, in order to pro>- 
mote their pu filing forth lateral Ihoots the fame year, 
near the head of the Hem, to form the beginning head 
in an eligible expanficn of lower branches, as a proper 
bails to furnilh others in a regular fupply upward; 
and for wall-trees particularly, alfo for efpoliers, it is 
likewife fometimes neceffary to prune down the fecond 
year’s Ihoots moderately, to obtain a further f pply of 
laterals; for when the Aril fiioots are not headed down 
as above, but permitted to run, they are apt to ex¬ 
tend 
