. 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 . Fruit-culture; Fruit. BUDDING. 19 is rapid; wMle the wound on the stock is speedily covered by a new layer of bark from that part of the scion which stands astride it. Grafting clay is prepared by mixing one third horse- dung iree from straw, and two thirds clay, or clayey loam, with a little hair, like that used in plaster, to pre- vent its cracking. B
. 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 . Fruit-culture; Fruit. BUDDING. 19 is rapid; wMle the wound on the stock is speedily covered by a new layer of bark from that part of the scion which stands astride it. Grafting clay is prepared by mixing one third horse- dung iree from straw, and two thirds clay, or clayey loam, with a little hair, like that used in plaster, to pre- vent its cracking. Beat and temper it for two or three days, until it is thoroughly incorporated. "When used, it should be of such a con- sistency as to be easily put on and shaped with the hands. Ghafting wax of excel- lent quality we have made by melting together three parts of bees-wax, three Darts of rosin and two parts -allow. While yet warm itmay be worked with the aid of a little water, like shoemaker's wax, by the hand. The common graftr ing wax of the French. Fig. 6. SaMk grafting large stocks^: gardeners is of two Mnds. The first, is melted and laid on with a brush in a fluid state, and is made of half a pound of pijch, half a pound of bees-wax, and a pound of cow-dung boiled to- gether. The second, which is spread while warm on strips of coarse cotton, or strong paper, and wrapped directly about the graft, answering at once to tie and to protect it, is composed of equal parts of bees-wax, turpentine and resin. The grafting wax most commonly used here is made of (tallow, bees-wax, and resin, in equal parts, or, as many prefer, with a little more tallow to render it pliable. -Grafting wax is a much neater and more perfect protection than grafting clay, but the trifling cost of the latter, where a great'deal of work is to be done, accounts for its greater use by nurserymen, and gardeners Budding. Budding {inoculating, of the old authors) differs from common grafting not th
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