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immediately from the Body, may be of a fit Scantling for 
your purpofe, and yet have no Buds, or at leaft fo fmall and 
backward,that they will do you no fervice : fome in cutting 
their Cyons do take an inch or two of the Old, or former 
years Wood but for my part, I never do it, but when I can¬ 
not fpeed, or furnifh my felf other-wife, and in fuch a cafe I 
have made ufe of fuch as have been part of three years {hoot. 
Then you may proceed as followeth $ Firft,with your ftrong- 
eft Knife or Saw cut off the Head of your Stock at a fit 
height where you would have your Tree to head, or which 
is better, within half a foot or left of the ground, if your 
Stock be not too big, and then pare the top of the Stock 
fmooth j and if you put but one Cyon in, which ufually is 
thebeft way, then you are to cut off a piece with a (lope cut, 
about an inch and half deep on the worft fide of your Stock, 
putting your Graft on the fmootheft and ftraiteft fide,in cut¬ 
ting your Stocks thus, it wi]l cover over the fboner^thentake 
your Cyon which ought to be as the laft (hoot, it matters not 
for a joint of the former years growth, unlefs it be too fhort, 
for the ftraighter and fmoother your cutting is, the more ex- 
ad it may fit it to your Stock, efpecially if your Stock be 
young and have a thin lap: (I do not deny but Grafting at a 
Joynt (as it is commonly call’d) may do well, if the Stock 
have athick fap, as commbnly all your Wood Stocks have) 
then with your Knife being very fharp, cut your Cyon or 
Graft with a flope cut about an inch and an half more or lefs, 
according to the ftrength of your Stock and Graft, Firft, on 
theonefide, and then ontheother, making it for fhape like 
a Wedge, very fmooth and even, that it may joyn clofe all 
along,only that fide of your cutting that is to ftand outmoft 
in your Stock, muft be left a little thicker than the other, 
otherwife your Graft cannot joyn fo exadly with the Sap as it 
ought, if your cuttings be long, you may make two or three 
Cyons of one, leaving four or five Buds to a Cyon 5 then 
take your Knife and place it even on the middle of the head 
of the Stock, and with your ftick before mentioned, in the 
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