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Of Propagating Fruit-trees* 
SECT. III. 
Of Grafting. 
Having refolved on your Fruit, you How to 
muft (elc<ft your Grafts of fuch Trees that c £f e e 
are to be grafted from the belt bearing ri " 
Trees, and tiom fuch Boughs or Sprigs that 
are molt apt to bear; and, as a Virtuoso well 
obferved, from the Tree, the Spring before 
its beaiing year, if it be a Tree that (as 
many ufually do) bears every other year. 
As for the fize, let them be but (hort, 
with two or three Eyes or Buds at mod, 
and thofe the nearer together, the better. 
Grafts are ufually cut a little below the 
Knot or Jojnt of the lad: years growth, 
becaule the wood is there hard, and the 
rind thick, to fhoulder well on the Stock* 
but the fmalleft top will grow, though of 
the laft years growth only : yet the Grafts 
of two or three years growth cut Ihort 
(and the Buds that are likely to bloffom 
broken off) are befton large and well-root¬ 
ed Stocks, where they make thebeft fhoots, 
and are not fo ealily lubjeft to the incon¬ 
veniences of the more (lender. 
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