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Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
The Inconvenience this mannerofGraft- 
ing is fubjeft unto, is, that the Stock being 
flit the rain is apt to get in and decay the 
Stock, and fometime the Graff withall: 
Therefore caution muft be ufed, not only 
the firft year, but until the head of the 
Stock be covered to defend it from wet by 
good luteing of it or by Wax which is the 
beft. 
But if the Stock exceed three inches di - THtkJ&i 
ameter, or thereabouts, the beft way is to 
graft in the Rind or Bark, which is done 
with a Wedge made of Ivory, Box, or o- 
ther hard wood, made of a flat half-round 
form, tapering to a point5 and force the fame 
in between the Rind and the Stock, until 
you have made the paflage wide enough 
fortheGraft, the end whereof muft be cut 
after the fame form with the Rind peel’d 
off, preferving on as much of the inner 
Rind as you can, and making the Graft to 
(houlder well on the Stock. Thus may 
you fet many Grafts round the Stock 5 and 
the more there are, the fooner will they 
cover the Stock. 
This manner of Grafting in the Rind 
hath alfb its inconvenience. For the Graffs 
ufually make large Shoots the firft year, 
which in cafe the wind happen to blow 
F 3 ftrongly 
