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apt to bend when you hold open a ftrong Stock, thofe ends 
are to be made flat a little like a Chizel, but not above half 
an inch broad at raoft, only pretty ftrong 3 if you will, one 
end may be pretty fmall for fmaller Stocks,the other bigger, 
and the ufe ofit is to hold open your Stock till you have let 
your Graft or Cyon in its place3 the ftiape of this and the o- 
ther Tools are prefented to your view. Alfo in cafe you have 
any ftrong or ftubborn Stocks that are apt to pinch your Cyon 
too hard, you are to have feme fmall chips, or fticks cut 
wedge-falhion to keep your Stock from pinching your Graft 
too hard. Alfo you are to prepare a quantity of Clay or 
Loam, which ought to be very well tempered, either with 
pretty ftore of Hay or Stable-liter chopt fmall, if it be not 
very well tempered and wrought together, it will be apt to 
fall from your Graft in cafe of much wet, or chop or cleave 
in cafe of dry Weather. 
The next thing you are to take notice of is, what Stocks 
are fitteft for each fort or kind of Fruit to be grafted upon 3 
Know therefore that the Crab or Wilding-ftocks are the fitteft 
and beft to graft any fort of Pippins or Apples upon, altho 
fome are of another Judgment, and think that thofe Stocks 
that are raifed of the Kernels of good Apples are better. 
But I have had caufe to judge otherwife, although as I laid 
formerly, fome forts of them will grow more free or gole* 
and be fit for ufe fooner: But the Stocks of fome forts of 
fweetings are very bad,becaufe they never making a confide- 
rable Tree for ftature,are exceeding apt to fend forth Suckers 
from the Root. Likewife the Stock of wild Pears, either of 
Kernels or Suckers is the beft to graft any fort of Pears up¬ 
on or Medlars, the white Bufh is likewife good to graft Med¬ 
lars upon,and fometimesPears3 but if they be not grafted ve¬ 
ry near the ground, the Graft will outgrow the Stock, and 
make a very unhandfom Trees Pears are alfo grafted upon 
Quince-ftocks, and are good for fuch Trees as are to be 
planted againfta Wall, becaufe they do not ufoally make to 
great a Tree as a Pear-ftock 3 Medlars may likewife be bud- 
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