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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 

 SEEDLING STOCKS. 



a. Seedling stock of one year's growth, shortened and ready for transplanting. 

 6. A well-rooted seedling stock, suitable for cleft-grafting, with its third year's growth, 

 having been once transplanted. 



All stocks for grafting or budding should be raised from 



The various fruit-seeds desired for producing stocks should 

 be collected from healthy trees in their season, and, instead of 

 being stored dry, as garden-seeds, should be mixed with earth, 

 and kept either in a cellar or out of doors, the latter being 

 preferable where it can be done with safety. The housewife's 

 practice of placing peach-pits under a flat stone in the fall is 

 perfect so far as relates to the fulfillment of the conditions nec- 

 essary or desirable to the healthful preservation of all fruit- 

 seeds through the winter. All tree-seeds may be advantage- 

 ously sown in the fall if they can be secured from vermin, 

 unless for special reasons it is preferred to keep them until 

 spring. 



