90 OF GRAFFIXG. SECT. VII. 



Apricots being firft ready, the bud'ling feafon begins 

 with them. The flecks to be ufed are thbfe of the plum 

 ('raifed from flones or fuckers) when half an inch 

 thick, a little under or over, and the operation is to 

 take place from four to eight inches from the ground. 



Peaches and ncclarincs are propagated on the fame 

 fort of Hocks; but if the plum flock is firft budded with 

 an apricot (very low), and when of proper fize budded 

 with a peach, and efpecially a neftarine, the advantage 

 is reckoned that it takes beft fo, and comes to a better 

 bearing, producing an 'improved fruit, and particularly 

 the red Roman nectarine. Apricots may be expected to 

 be lefs luxuriant by double -budding, in which cafe the 

 firft bud fhould be of the Brujpls fort. 



Plums and cherries may be inoculated on fucker 

 flocks of any kind ; yet if a free growth is required, 

 (as for ftandards,) flocks raifed from {tones are beft ; 

 i. e. plums on plums, and cherries on cherries, though 

 they will take upon each other. 



Pears, if for ftandards, mould be inoculated on pear 

 flocks, and on thofe raifed from feed, rather than 

 fuckers, but if for dwarfs, quince flocks may be beft 

 ufed, to keep the trees from growing off too faft, and 

 fo getting foon too big for their allotted fpace; white 

 thorn flocks are fometimes ufed with the fame view, 

 but the Iruit gets ftony. 



Stocks for budding dwarfs fhould be three years old ; 

 but for jlandards four or more, though fmall ftocks 

 may be budded for ftandards alfo, (as mentioned before) 

 if the moot proceeding from the bud be trained to a 

 (ingle ftem, till of fufficient height to be topped in 

 order to form a head. Standards ihould be from three 

 to i~even feet high, before they are topped, according 

 to the height they are defired to be of, as half ox full 

 fized; but dwarfs for training can hardly branch off 

 too low, being budded at five or fix inches, or lefs 

 from the ground, the ftuifct from the bud fhould be 

 fhortencd (at a year's growth) to Rve or fix eyes, or 



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