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following manner: Take a scion from a tree, the 

 growth of the preceding year. Cut this scion into 

 pieces of three or four inches in length, dip the ends 

 in warm rosin or wax so as to prevent the sap issuing 

 out plarit the pieces in a good moist soil. A number 

 of shoots will spring up ; from these, select the most 

 thrifty for growth ; lop down the remaining shoots 

 and cover them well with earth, and in a short time 

 they will become roots to nourish and hasten the 

 growth of the thrifty shoots into trees. By this meth- 

 od, select fruit, either apple or pear, maybe produced 

 at least two years sooner than from ungrafted seedlings. 



BEST ADAPTED SOIL. 



The apple tree will thrive and flourish in many dif- 

 ferent sorts of soil ; but a dry friable loam should prob- 

 ably be preferred, as too much moisture is known to 

 be injurious (o the roots. Such soil as produces good 

 crops of corn or grass, will, in general, afford the req- 

 uisite and best adapted nutriment to apple or pear 

 trees. The soil should not only be rich, but have 

 a good depth, not less perhaps than two or three feet. 

 It has been remarked as a fact, that, in each particular 

 place, certain kinds of apples have been observed to 

 succeed better than other kinds ; and, according to 

 the observations of the honourable Timothy Picker- 

 ing, many different sorts will flourish on an acre of 

 ground, when the same number of one sort would 

 starre. When, therefore, the cultivator has discover- 

 ed the varieties most congenial to the soil and situa- 

 tion he occupies, it should be his endeavour to encour- 

 age them, by multiplying the grafts on his unproduc- 

 tive trees, or by forming new additional trees by- 

 grafting on other stocks. 



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