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and most tfees will, if not the first, perhaps the sfr 

 cond year 



vStocks from stickers, for dwarf plums and cherries, 

 are in one sense better than those raised from stones,, 

 as being less free in their growth : and the common 

 red cherry and the black are to be preferred fo* 

 stocks, whether as to suckers or seedlings. If suckers 

 of any tree grow at a proper distance from the parent 

 Stock, they may be grafted or inoculated without re- 

 moval, till wanted to plant out for fruiting, i. e. in a 

 year or two. Suckers that are for stocks, should 

 always be planted out in autumn, and stand (at 

 least) to the following spring or summer, twelve- 

 months before they are used. Apricots, peaches and 

 nectarines are grafted by inoculation on plum stocks, 

 but rather on those raised from stones, except for 

 apricots it hardly signifies. Stocks of the wheat 

 plum, or the muscle are the best. Figs, quinces, 

 and mulberries (as sometimes codlins) are raised 

 from suckers, layers, and cuttings, without graffing * 

 but from layers is the best method, being more sure 

 than cuttings, and more fruitful than suckers, and in 

 one year they will be rooted. The season for both 

 cuttings and layers is October, though February id 

 rather better for the -fig. The layers from Jig trees 

 must not be taken off till the beginning of March 

 twelvemonth, as when planted in autumn they are 

 apt to die; let all other layers, however, be then 

 removed. 



Medlars are graffed on pear or crab, or service- 

 tree stocks ; but more commonly upon medlar and 

 white thorn stocks ; though the fruit (on the last at 

 kast) is not reckoned so good. 



Grape vines are generally raised from cuttings 

 and layers, either in autumn or spring; but for put- 

 tings rather the latter ; and if the vines are pruned 



