Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees, &c-.

As to the lbccess of grassing, the main point is, to join the inwardRind of the Cion to the inward Rind of the Stock, so that the Sap ofthe One may there meet with the Sap of the Other, and these Partsshould be join’d closely-, but not too forceably ; that being the best andthost infallible way, by which most of the quick and juicy parts are mu-tually united, especially towards the bottom.

If the Stock be so big as to endanger the pinching of your Grafs, whenthe IVedge is drawn out of the Cleft 5 let the inner-fide of the Graffwhich is within the wood of the Stock , be left the thicker, that lo theWoody part of the Cion may bear the strels, and the sappy part be pre-foved from bruising. Some by an happy hand do with good lucceis graffWithout cleaving the Stock at all, only by Incisions in the Rind , as theindustrious Mr. Austin teaches us: But since this is not for every Rustichand, nor l'ecms to fortify lo strongly against impetuous Winds beforethe Union be secure , there had need be lome extraordinary 'Desnce.

Chuse the straightest and smoothest part of the Stock for the placeWhere you intend to gnaff'. If the Stock be all knotty ( which someesteem no impediment) or crooked, rectify it with the fittest posture ofthe Grafs

For a Graff covet not a Cion too slender ; for the Sun and WindWill sooner enforce it to Wither: Yet are we to distinguish, that for In-oculation we take the find from a Sprig of the last year’s shoot; andfoost allow that the Cion should also have some of the former with it, thatit may be the stronger to graff, and abide to be put close into the Stock,Which is thought to advance it in bearing.

In Herefordshire they do frequently chuse a Graff of several yearsgrowth-} and sot the gr'dffng of such large Stocks as are taken out of theWoods or Nurseries, and fitted into Rows for Orchards, they chuse notthe Graffs so small as in other Countries they require them} which has,it seems, occafion’d some complaint from them that understand not thefealon of the first breach Of this Note. Once for all, the stumpy Graffwill be found much superior to the slender one, and make a much noblerand larger Shoot. This upon experience.

Graff your Cions on that fide of the Stock where it may receive theleast hurt from the South-wesi Wind, it being the most common, andmost violent that blows in Summer’, so as the Wind may blow it to theStock, not from it. And when the Zephyrs of the Spring are stirring,chule that Season before all others for this work.

Some there are who talk of removing the Stock about Chrifimas , andthen also graff it; which there be that glory they can successfully doeven by the P ive-fide, ahd so fiat be sore’d to expect a two or three Ycarsrooting of the Stock : But in this adventure ’tis advilcable to plunge theGraff three or four Inches deep in the Stock. Lastly,

Be careful that the Rain get not into the Clefts of your young grassedStocks’. Yet it has been noted, That many old Trees (quite decay’dwith an inward hollowness) have born as full Burdens, and constantly,as the very soundest, and the Fruit found to be more delicate than uluallythe lame kind from a perfect and more entire Stock.

Except some fbrmfcr case requires it, leave not your Graffs above four,-five, or ( at most) fix Inches of length above the Stock } for by theF^gth it draws more feebly, and is more expos’d to the shocks of the

. . > or hurt by the Birds ; and you shall frequently perceive the Sum-^t’es and Tops of such young Graffs to be mortified and die.

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