^^^ ' APPLES. 



was born, and applied as a plaster on trees from which 

 large branches had been cut off: it forms by exposure a 

 crust m a day or two ; when this is done it is not liable to 

 be washed away until the wound is healed. Mr. Forsyth's 

 addition of sifted lime rubbish would answer a good pur- 

 pose for hardening it sooner ; the bone-ashes and the rest of 

 the flourish were not amiss : the best part of it, how- 

 ever, was several thousand pounds obtained from the British 

 House of Commons. But to return : after the grafted trees 

 are fit to transplant, which in the first instance will be two 

 years, and in the other, the head may be formed at once, 

 and transplanted in the fall or spring following, where they 

 are to remam for fruiting. — Am. Ed. 



There are only two kinds of stocks on which it is desira- 

 ble to propagate the apple : the first is that for our most vi-> 

 gorous and hardy sorts for orchard planting, as before de- 

 scribed ; the second for our more tender and delicate des- 

 sert apples, for dwarf trees, and espaliers, for the garden. 

 This last is most generally, in our nurseries, called the Pa- 

 radise stock, although widely different from the Pomme 

 Paradis of the French, a sort not worth growing in this, 

 country.* 



In the cider counties, the stock is generally trained up 

 standard high, and when grown sufficiently large for the 

 purpose, it is grafted the height at which it is intended the 

 head of the tree should be formed : this is generally from 

 seven to eight feet from the ground. In the nurseries, all 

 the apples intended for standards are grafted about nine 

 inches high only, allowing them to grow up standard high, 

 and forming the head upon the second year's shoot ; but in- 

 stead of grafting them, a much better method is to bud them, 

 as they make much better trees in the same length of time. 



This latter practice is recommended for standards only, 

 as I have always found grafted plants of apples, and also 

 those of pears, plums, and cherries, far superior for dwarfs 

 to those which have been raised from buds. 



Transplanting. 



With regard to pruning, training, and general manage- 

 ment of fruit trees of every description, I wish it to be fully 

 understood, that they cannot be removed from the nursery 



* See the note on these stocks, p. 342. — ^m. Ed. 



