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SEEDLING PROPAGATION OF YAEIETIES. 



nursery stocks, where buds set the previous season 

 have failed. On the smaller stocks, of one to four years 

 of age, budding is by far the preferable method of 

 propagation. 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 11. 



Fig. 10. Cleft-grafting with single graft. 

 Fig. 11. Cleft-grafting with double grafts. 



When the trees are large, only the younger and 

 thriftier limbs should be grafted ; but when all the 

 branches are old, and covered with rough bark, 

 a sufficient number of them should be shortened, 

 in order to induce new growths, on which the 

 grafting may Ije performed, as shown in Figs. 11 

 oris. 



Thousands of pear trees, almost gigantic in their 

 size, in all parts of our country, now bearing only 

 the most acrid fruit, could each be made in a few 



