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ferred to the garden or orchard, it is a very good plan to 

 nip off the point of the young root protruded from the 

 seed ; this makes it ramify, so that, when taken up, the 

 trees have fine branched and fibrous roots, instead of 

 long tap- roots, as is very generally the case. 



Planting. The seeds should be put in the ground as 

 soon in the spring as it is in a fit state to be worked, or as 

 soon thereafter as possible. A line is stretched, and holes 

 made with a dibble to receive the seed ; it should be put 

 in with the root downwards, and be covered not over one- 

 fourth of an inch deep. 



Plum Stocks are used for the peach in soils of a stiff, 

 adhesive character, in which the peach does not succeed. 

 In England, the peach is worked almost exclusively on 

 the plum, as it suits their moist climate and soil better. 

 In France, the hard-shell almond is used almost exclusively 

 on dry, and the plum on damp soils. Almond stocks are 

 raised in the same way as the peach. 



Dwarf Peach-Trees are produced by working on the 

 same stocks recommended for dwarfing the plum. Some 

 time ago, a French journal gave a very interesting account 

 of experiments made in dwarfing the peach and plum, by 

 a Dr. Bretonneau, of Tours, France. He had succeeded 

 in producing very pretty dwarf plum -and peach-trees on 

 a dwarf plum, indigenous to this country (Prunus pumila). 

 He exhibited beautiful prolific dwarf trees of the Green 

 Gage plum on the sloe, and was making farther experi- 

 ments with the dwarf almond as a stock for peaches. 



These subjects are all worthy the attention of those who 

 have the leisure for experiments. The art of growing a 

 large collection of fruits on a small spot of ground is of 

 great importance to curious and tasteful people living in 

 towns and villages. 



Stocks for the Apricot and Nectarine. Everything 

 that has been said of peach stocks applies, with equal 

 force and propriety, to these two trees. 



