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CHAPTER III. 
pf Grafting—The Opinion of a Proprietor on the Subject—Of the Choice 
of Grafts—What must be done before Grafting and Nursery—A par~ 
ticular Manner of Budding the Quince Tree—And how several Sorts 
of Trees may be easily raised. v 
The art of grafting is one of those fortunate discoveries, 
from which we derive in this northern climate one of the most 
agreeable sensations that flatter the taste; and it is a process 
by which a graft or bud is joined to a tree, which by develop¬ 
ing itself there, changes, and most commonly improves, its 
subsequent produce. 
Grafting is varied according to the strength of the stock, and 
other circumstances. It may be reduced to four different pro¬ 
cesses: ist, Grafting by approach or inarching; zndly, Cleft- 
grafting ; 3rdly, Side grafting ; 4thly, Budding. The first is 
practised on the orange, the citron, and other delicate trees. 
The second and third are commonly applied to the apple and 
pear tree. The fourth is made use of on trees that have gum, 
and sometimes on others also. It is not the junction of the 
external barks, which forms the future union of the parts, but 
the coalescing together of the liber, or inner barks, is the ob¬ 
ject to which our attention should be only directed. 
It is not my design to describe here the manual process of 
grafting, about which information may be easily procured 
from writers on gardening. I shall merely observe, that when 
the graft is placed on the chief boughs, it occasions less de. 
rangement to the vegetable economy, than if it was on the 
trunk, and that the wood of the stock, being naturally closer 
than that which springs from the graft, is better able after¬ 
wards to resist the high winds, and bear the weight of the 
fruit. 
M. Dierville, Lieutenant-general ofEvreux, in Normandy, 
relates in the Journal de Physique for March, 1781, an observation 
made by an old grower, and which, he says, experience seems. 
|o have confirmed. It is, that cider apple trees are produc¬ 
tive 
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