The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fig. grafting. BUDDING. 19 is rapid; wliile the wound on the stock is speedily covered by anew layer of bark from that part of the scion which standsastride it. Grafting clay is preparedby mixing one third horse-dung free from straw, andtwo thirds clay, or clayeyloam, with a little hair, likethat used in plaster, to pre-vent its cracking. Beat an
The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fig. grafting. BUDDING. 19 is rapid; wliile the wound on the stock is speedily covered by anew layer of bark from that part of the scion which standsastride it. Grafting clay is preparedby mixing one third horse-dung free from straw, andtwo thirds clay, or clayeyloam, with a little hair, likethat used in plaster, to pre-vent its cracking. Beat andtemper it for two or threedays, until it is thoroughlyincorporated. When used,it should be of such a con-sistency as to be easily puton and shaped with thehands. Grafting wax of excel-lent quality we have made ?Jby melting together three |parts of bees-w^ax, three Iparts of rosin and two parts •tallow. While yet warmit may be worked with theaid of a little w^ater, likeshoemakers wax, by thehand. The common graft-ing w^ax of the Frenchgardeners is of two Fig. 6. Saddle grafting large stocks. The first, is melted and laid on witha brush in a fluid state, and is made of half a pound of pitch,half a pound of bees-wax, and a pound of cow-dung boiled to-gether. The second, which is spread while w^arm on strips ofcoarse cotton, or strong paper, and wrapped directly about thegraft, answering at once to tie and to protect it, is composed ofequal parts of bees-wax, turpentine and resin. The giafting waxmost commonly used here is made of tallow, bees-wax, and resin,in equal parts, or, as many prefer, with a little more tallow torender it pliable. Grafting wax is a much neater and more perfect protectionthan grafting clay, but the trifling cost of the latter, where agreat deal of work is to be done, accounts for its greater use bynurserymen, and gardeners generally. Budding. Budding {inoculating^ of the old authors) differs from commongrafting not the least in its nature or effe
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