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until you difcern your bafs or ties begin to gird , but know 
that you may Ipoil your bud as well by letting it be ty’d too 
long, as by untying too foon 5 but for the moft part a fort- 
nightis Efficient,fometimes again three weeks is little enough, 
a little oblervation will put you out of doubt 5 but for fuch 
flock or trees as are great and quick growers, as natural 
Peaches and Roles, and the like, they muft not be too long 
ty’d, leaft they gird and break offat the budding place with 
wind, which is ulual: they that defire to be very curious, 
and have but few to mind, may untie at a fortnight or ten 
days end, and gently tie their buds again. 
There are other forms of doing this work, which are as 
folioweth: having made choice of a good (hoot or cutting 
of the kune years growth, as aforefaid, cut off the leaves, 
leaving only the fhort ftalks 5 then beginning at the lower 
end of your £hoot,a little above the Eye or bud make an over¬ 
thwart Cut quite round, and then cut the bark on each fide 
of the bud from the over-thwart cut above downward an 
inch in length or thereabout, and then Hoping each fide to¬ 
wards the lower end, that it appear as the former turned up- 
fide down, then pull off the loofe or fuperfluous bark in the 
back-fide, and lower end, then holding your cutting in your 
left hand,your thumb being againft the bud left it fhouldflip 
offi and then with the flat end ©if your knife haft raife the 
bark on each fide of your Scutcheon, and then with a Quill 
or budding Gouge mentioned before 5 take your fhield or 
Scutcheon off, keeping the thumb of your left hand pretty 
hard againft the bud, left it fhould Hip offi and leave the 
fubftance of the bud behind $ but for my part, when I did 
ule this falhion of budding, I did ufeno Quill, but after the 
bark was railed on each fide of my bud as aforefaid, I did 
flip off' my bud or Scutcheon with the thumb and fore-finger 
of the right hand, bearing, the fore-finger of my left hand 
hard againft on the contrary fide, : and fo forced it off fide- 
wayes, and a little downward withall, and then cut your 
flock with an over-thwart cut on a clear place as aforefaid. 
