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fruits designed for forcing, should always be on 

 smart flavoured flocks, or they become insipid, or 

 mealy. 



Though crab stocks for apples are mostly used, 

 yet the ripe black seeds of any other smart eating 

 apple may be sown, either in autumn or spring. 

 Sow in autumn, (October or November), and if this 

 sowing fails, the spring may be adopted towards the 

 end of February. At these times, the well ripened 

 seeds of pears, or stones of plurns, or cherries, may 

 be sown. The stones of any sort of plum, (damsons 

 excepted) produce stocks for apricots, peaches, and 

 nectarines ; and though the white sorts are com* 

 ID only preferred, the red wheat-plumb is excellent 

 for the apricot ; and of black plums the muscle is 

 the best. 



Those seeds or stones that are saved early, or are 

 to be kept through the winter for spring sowing, 

 (which many prefer), should be preserved from air 

 in very dry sand : Let them be put in a box layer 

 upon layer, three or four courses, covering the top 

 three inches, and by traps guard against mice. Nuts, 

 acorns, and chesnuts are put in the ground at the 

 same time, as also the seeds of various sorts of 

 shrubs snd forest trees. The tenderer sorts of shrubs 

 and trees are indeed best sown in March, or begin- 

 ning of April ; and a gentle hot-bed would be of 

 advantage, to bring up the seeds with certainty, 

 giving plenty of air when up. 



The seeds, or kernels of apples and pears may be 

 sown in drills a lull inch deep, a foot asunder, and 

 scattered thinly in them, pressing the ground with a 

 rake head to them ; or sow at broad cast, and tram- 

 ple. But take care not to use the seeds of fruit 

 that has grown on a hollow tree. 



The stones of any fruit should be sown at near 

 two inches depth ; and nuts, &c. at three or four. 



