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and others thirty feet, as the proper distance. But we 

 think twenty feet about the right figure, and then you get 

 one hundred trees to the acre. 



In selecting trees, those from three to five years old 

 should be chosen, and these should be budded to some 

 known and good varieties of fruit, either in dormant bud, 

 or one year's growth will do, if thrifty. 



STOCKS. 



There are various opinions in regard to the stock on 

 which the buds are inserted. Some nursery-men recom- 

 mend sweet seedlings, and others are more in favor of the 

 sour or wild stock. The sour stocks are perhaps as hardy 

 as the sweet, and grow much more rapidly and mature 

 several years earlier, consequently those who are in a hurry 

 to get a bearing grove will procure the best varieties, bud- 

 ded low, on the sour stock. If bearing sour trees from the 

 wild groves can be obtained, which have grown on high, 

 dry land, carefully removed and planted, the tops cut off 

 four feet from the ground, they will soon start out new 

 shoots which can be budded the same season,- and in three 

 or four years a fine bearing grove may be 'obtained. But 

 the sour wild groves are mostly found in low moist land 

 and when transplanted on higher and dryer soil frequently 

 sicken and die, or go into the dumps for several years, 

 hence the surest way is to procure healthy, strong growing, 

 budded seedlings, which have been grown on high and dry 

 land. 



SEEDLING TREES VS. BUDDED. 



Most of the old groves in Florida are seedling trees, 

 and there are many people now living* here who reconr 



