 | James Wheeler - Botany - 1763 - 536 pages
...cut off the leaf from the bud, leaving the foot-flalk remaining, you Ihould make acrofs cut, abou: half an inch below the eye, and with your knife flit off the bud, with part of the wood to it : this done, you muft with your knife pull off that part of the wood which was taken with the bud,... | |
 | William Forsyth, William Cobbett - Fruit - 1802 - 420 pages
...having cut off the leaf from the bud, leaving the footftalk remaining, you fhould make a crofs cut about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife flit...wood to it, in form of an efcutcheon : this done, you mn ft with your knife pull off that part of the wood which was taken with the bud, obferving whether... | |
 | William Forsyth - Fruit trees - 1804 - 240 pages
...the footstalk remaining, make a cross cut about half an inch below the eye, and with the knife slit off the bud with part of the wood to it, in form of an escutcheon ; this done, next with the knife pull o^that part of the wood which was taken with the bud,... | |
 | John Lunan - Botany - 1814 - 418 pages
...from the bud, leaving the footstalk, and make a crosscut about half an inch, below the eye, and slit off the bud, with part of the wood to it, in form of an escutcheon. This done, pull off with the knife that part of the wood which was taken with the bud,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...then having cut off the leaf from the bud, leaving the foot-ftalk remaining, make a crofs Cut abuut half an inch below the eye, and with your knife flit off the bud, with part of the wood to it. Tha done, withr your knife pull off that part of the wood which was taken with the bad, obferving whether... | |
 | John Nicholson - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...foot stock remaining, you make a cross cut about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife slit off the bud, with part of the wood to it, in form of an eschutcheon ; pull off with your knife that part of the wood which was taken with the bud, observing... | |
 | William Forsyth - Fruit-culture - 1824 - 586 pages
...footstalk remaining, you should make a cross cut about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife slit off the bud with part of the wood to it, in form of an escutcheon : this done, you must with your knife pull off that part of the wood which was taken with... | |
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... cut about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife flit off the bud with part of the wood to it, in form of an... 