SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS. 15 



ods of managing dry apple seeds. Success with fruit tree 

 seeds of any kind is more certain if they are not allowed 

 to become dry. As soon as the buried seeds show signs 

 of sprouting (fig. 5) they are taken up and planted. 



Fig. 5.— Apple Seed and Young Plantlet. 



Handle them carefully and cover lightly. If to be 

 grafted where they grow, leave the young seedlings about 

 six inches apart ; if to be taken up and grafted in the 

 hand, or transplanted to obtain another year's growth 

 before being grafted, they can be left closer together and 

 the rows need not be so far apart. 



If well cultivated, the young seedlings can be budded 

 the ensuing summer, or grafted the following winter or 

 spring. Any one desiring to propagate some valuable 

 apples at once, and not having the stocks, can obtain 

 them at very low prices from most nurserymen. The 

 seeds from our native crabs make hardy stocks. A few 



