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CHAPTER XLVIIL 



ON THE PRODUCTION AND CHOICE OF FRUIT TREES. 



Although new sorts of fruits are easily obtainable 

 from seeds, yet this method of production is much too 

 slow for general purposes, and when kernel trees — 

 that is those raised from seed — are in the slow 

 progress of such events brought to produce fruit, it 

 is ten to one if it be of any value ; so that even 

 seedling trees, when they have attained sufficient 

 size, are best used for stocks upon which to graft 

 any desired sort. 



In reproducing a constant supply of well-known 

 sorts of fruit, three plans are usually practised, 

 namely, Budding, Grafting, and Cutting. 



Budding is usually employed in the case of smaller 

 fruit or flower trees, and but seldom with apples 

 and pears; this well-known process, however, is 

 frequently had recourse to in the nursery ; it is 

 performed for fruit trees in the same way as for 

 roses, and therefore needs no description in this 

 place, as we can scarcely conceive the farmer doing 

 much in this direction, except as a matter of amuse- 

 ment and experiment. 



Grafting is a common process on most farms with 

 orcharding; a sort of fruit may be wished to be 

 changed or a promising tree may be broken, and in 

 either case the farmer should know enough of the 



