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particularly the red Rortian nectarine. Apricots 

 may be expected to be less luxuriant by double-bud- 

 ding, in which case the first biid should be of the 

 Brussels sort. / 



Plums and cherries may be inoculated on sucker 

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

 (as for standards) stocks raised from stones are best; 

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

 they will take upon each other. 



Pears, if for standards) should be inoculated on 

 pear stocks, and on those raised from seed, rather 

 than suckers ; but if for dwarfs, quince stocks may 

 be best used, to keep the- trees from growing off too 

 fast, and so getting soon too big for their allotted 

 space : white-thorn stocks are sometimes used with 

 the same view, but the fruit of these get stony. 



Stocks for budding dwarfs should bs three years 

 old ; but for standards four or more, though small 

 stocks may be budded for standards also, (as men- 

 tioned before) if the shoot proceeding from the bud 

 be trained to a single stem, till of sufficient height to 

 be topped, in order to form a head. Standards 

 should be from three to seven feet high, before they 

 are topped, according to the height they are desired 

 to be of, as half or full sized; but dwarfs for train- 

 ing can hardly branch off too low, being budded at 

 five or six inches, or less, from the ground, the shoot 

 from the bud should be shortened (at a year's 

 growth) to five or six eyes, or io four that are well 

 placed ; i. e. with a lateral direction for the wall. 



Though the longer inoculation is deferred, the riper 

 the shoots will be for furnishing buds; yet there is 

 this advantage in beginning as early as may be, that 

 if the budding appears not to have taken, the work 

 may be done again before the season is out. Or, to 

 Insure success, two buds may be inserted in the 

 same stock, (but not in a direction under one ano- 



