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Of Propagating Fruit-trees. 
with a foil and broad fhoulder to reft on 
the top of the Stock, and fit it aptly to the 
Stock, and bind it on with Hemp, Yarn, 
BafTe, or fuch-like: but if the Graft and 
Stock be near of a fize, then cut the Graft 
aflope, and the end of the Stock likewife, 
and bind them together Rind to Rind. 
This is the beft way of Grafting, the in- 
conveniencies that attend both the other, 
here being prevented. For in this the Graff 
foon covers the Stock which is not impair¬ 
ed by flitting, and the Graff having its 
Wood as well as its Rind bound to the 
Stock, is not fb apt to break off, as that 
which is Graffed only in the Rind, nor is 
the Graff apt to be top heavy, the Stocks 
being fmaller affording not fb plentiful nou- 
rifhment. For where the lap flows moft 
liberally the wood is moft foft, and where 
more thinly, there the wood is harder and 
beft able to bear the Stock. 
If the Tree and Stock ftand near toge¬ 
ther, they may be united, by paring away 
the Rind of both, and binding them toge¬ 
ther until they are perfectly joyned ; then 
may you cut away the branch that former¬ 
ly led to the Graft, and leave it to extract 
its nourifhment from the Stock. 
F 4 
By ap¬ 
proach. 
When 
