PEACH AND THE PEAR. 2 [9 



covering all up to the first fruit-bud of the new pear- 

 stock to which the root of the seedling had been grafted. 

 The pear may be budded on the thorn, the mountain 

 ash, or the apple, but the practice is not to be recom- 

 mended. Dwarf trees are propagated by budding the 

 pear stock to the root of the Angers Quince ; thus to 

 some extent dwarfing the pear. The pear is deficient in 

 fibrous roots and should never be transplanted of large 

 size ; and one year old trees are much more likely to live 

 than larger, finer looking trees. Pears are, I think, 

 more surely propagated by budding than by grafting 

 for nursery stock, and the method of budding is the 

 same as that employed for the peach, for the descrip- 

 tion of which the reader is referred to the article on 

 budding the peach. The pears are budded in July, 

 August and September, hereabouts ; in from ten to 

 fifteen days the strings are cut off, and the following 

 spring the tops are cut off down to the bud. The new 

 bud is encouraged and developed during the following 

 summer ; all buds kept rubbed off on the stock below it, 

 and the next fall or spring is ready to set out in the 

 orchard. If it be wished to graft the pear to the 

 seedling instead of budding them, it is usually done 

 when the nurseryman has time through the winter. 

 Taking them out of the sand or saw-dust and returning 

 them when finished, and planting them out in the spring. 

 The larger seedlings are, perhaps, better grafted than 



