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ceed any time between the first of August and twentieth of Sep- 

 tember, provided that the stocks are young and vigorous. 



You may now inoculate all such curious trees and shrubs, as you 

 wish to propagate in that way : there are very few but will succeed 

 at this time, if worked on good and suitable stocks ; but when you 

 find the bark not to part or rise freely, it will be almost in vain to 

 attempt the work. Many kinds now take a second growth, and 

 when that is perceivable, it will be a very proper time to inoculate 

 them. For general instructions on this subject, see page 433. 



New Budded Trees. 



You should now look carefully over the stocks which were bud- 

 ded in July, and, in three weeks, or at most a month after their being 

 worked, loosen the bandages, lest the buds should be pinched there- 

 by ; and where there are any shoots produced below the buds, they* 

 should be rubbed off. You ougl.t, also, to examine the trees which 

 were budded the former year, or grafted in the spring, and cut off 

 all the shoots that are produced beneath the inoculations or grafts; 

 for if these are permitted to grow, they will starve the proper 

 shoots. 



Preserving the Stones of Fruits. 



Preserve peach, plum, cherry, and apricot stones, Sec. to sow for 

 raising stocks to bud and graft on. These may either be sown im- 

 mediately, or preserved till October or any of the following months, 

 in common garden earth or moist sand ; but it will be necessary to 

 embrace the first opportunity in spring, if not before, to sow them 

 before the stones open and the radicles begin to shoot, otherwise a 

 great number of these would be injured in the act of sowing. You 

 may mix the stones with either earth or sand, which, put into gar- 

 den pots or boxes, and plunge these to their edges, and no deeper, 

 in some dry border, till the time of sowing. Every day that they 

 are kept out of the ground is an injury to them, and if preserved 

 in a dry state till spring, very few will vegetate for a year after, and 

 the far greater number not at all. 



Weed and water Seedting*) &c. 



The seedling trees and shrubs of all kinds must now be kept per- 

 fectly clean from weeds; for these, if permitted to grow among 

 the young plants, vcriild totally ruin them. 



In dry vteather )ou must btr careful to give frequent waterings to 

 the seedling plants, whether in beds, boxes, or pots, according to 

 their respective necessities. 



Keep the ground between the rows of trees well hoed, and 

 train up the various sorts of forest-trees and shrubs for the several 

 purposes they are designed ; but do not trim the stems of standard 

 trees too close, for it is necessary to leave some small shoots to 

 detain the sap, for the purpose cf strengthening those parts. 



