yo Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
To keep When once the Leaf is wholly off, and 
Cr *f ts - before the Tree begins again to bud, Grafts 
then cut, may be kept until the Spring or 
Grafting-time, the ends being ftuck in the 
ground, and tranfported or carried to any 
remote place: If the ends be ftuck in 
Clay, or in a Turnip, or they bound up in 
green Mofi, or being wrapped inoyl’dor 
waxen Leather, the intent being to keep 
them cool, and from the exficcating winds: 
for in frofty and windy weather. Trees ta¬ 
ken up and not yet planted, being laid in a 
Cellar, or fuch-like place, are preferved, 
when otherwife expofed to the wind, 
though much more cold, are deftroyed. 
rime for Although you may graft and inoculate 
Grafting, almoft at any time of the year, either by 
beginning early in the Autumn, and by 
preferving them from the cold,or by keep- 
ing your grafts cut and ftuck in the 
ground in the (hade, to impede their 
growth in the Spring, and fo graft them 
on the fappy Stocks, or by budding in 
Summer} yet the principal times for graft¬ 
ing are the months of January and Febru¬ 
ary^ for Cherries , Pears , Plums , and for¬ 
ward Fruits; and March for Apples. A 
milde open weather is beft, and moft 
propitious for this work j which if that 
invite, 
