1 6 The Englijh Gardner. 
and water, railing your Clay high on the top, that the wet 
do not get in and lpoil your labour 3 this way of Grafting is 
very apt to take and thrive, but are oft fiibjefl: to be broken 
off with the wind, chiefly when the Bark is cut or broken 
quite open, which with care may be prevented 3 the danger 
of breaking off with the wind may be prevented by faftning 
a flick or two to the body of your Tree, and then tying 
your Grafts thereto, beginning to tie them before they have 
got too great a head, &c. to have a care of them for the firft 
two years after, by which time they may be paft that incon¬ 
venience 3 fometimes when a flock hath not been very big, I 
have put two Cyons in the Cleft, and two in the Sap, and 
hath been a good way both eafie and fure 3 a little praftice 
will inform your judgment more than I can tell well how to 
exprefs, both in this and other the like pra&ifes. (The Sea- 
fbn is when the Sap begins to be a little ftirring, the Bark will 
give way the eafier.) Other forms of grafting there are ufed, 
which I forbear to relate 3 thefe being both eafie and 
fufficient, only one form more I had almoft forgot, which is 
ufeful for feveral forts of Fruits, and choice Flowering Trees 
or Shrubs: And is as folioweth. 
Another manner or way of Grafting , called Inarching. 
H Aving a fort of Fruit or other choice Tree, or flower¬ 
ing Shrub that is tender or hard to propagate by the 
more ordinary waies (otherwifo it is not worth the trouble) 
and there be Stocks of a foitable nature growing near acciden¬ 
tally, or planted purpofoly about it 3 your Stocks being of a 
fufficient fize and growth for the purpofo, make choice of a 
convenient Branch, either of the laft years, or two years 
growth 3 as alfo of filch a heighth on your Stock, as may be 
beft both for the fize of your Tree,and the convenient joyn- 
ing of'both Stock and Branch 3 then cut off the Head of your 
Stock, and on the moft convenient fide for your purpofo, 
cuta notch juft againftthe middle of the head about an inch 
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