The Englijh Gardner * 
or fafhions will do very well, neither is there any odds more 
than that fome are more eafie or quick, as having fewer cir- 
cumftanees. 
What Stocks are moft fuitable for every fort or kind of 
.Fruit to be budded, or grafted upon, is already mentioned 
before. Another thing to be taken notice of is,that fo many 
Stocks as are inoculated and hold their Buds, you are to cut 
off the heads of them about half a foot above the Bud, any 
time from the beginning of the Winter following, to the be¬ 
ginning of the Spring,only in cafe you have 
budded any Ne&arins or choice Peaches, 
you are to fpare fome fmall branch oft the 
Stock to grow up with your Bud, for the 
firft year at leaft 5 yet fo as to correct it, 
that it do not mafter or ftarve your Bud, 
for there is fome odds between a Natural 
and a Stepmother 5 this is chiefly to be 
done when you bud Peaches and Ne&a- 
rins on Plum-ftocks 5 alfo you are diligently to over-look 
your Buds in the fpringing time, left they fhould be deftroy- 
ed by young Caterpillars, which are apt to breed on your 
Bud,efpecialiy your Apricocks,and will quickly deftroy them 
if not timely prevented, therefore you are to fearch for them, 
and where you find the leaves to ftick together, you may be 
iure to find them by gently opening the young leaves,with a 
needle or pin point, &c. Alfo when your Buds are {hot out 
about half a foot or lefs, you are to tiea piece of Bafs about 
the top of your Stock,in the moft convenient places,and then 
to tye up your tender Shoot,not only for the more handfom 
growing of it, but alfo to prevent its breaking off by the 
wind, or other accidents, not forgetting to prune off fiiper- 
fluousBuds or Shoots from your Stocks by degrees, as your 
inoculated Buds get ftrength. 
The over timely cut¬ 
ting off the heads of 
head-flocks, doth oft 
occafion buds to be a 
little too forward, 
therefore if you for¬ 
bear to head your 
tendereft forts til! the 
Spring, they will be 
more fure. * 
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