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stocks, including, by anticipation, such as are used in 

 budding. For apples^ seedlings of the crab apple, 

 layers of the doucin or paradise, and of the.codlins, 

 with cuttings of the bur-knot varieties. For 'pears, 

 seedlings of the common and wilding pear ; with seed- 

 lings or layers of quince. For j^^ums, seedlings of 

 any of the common sorts, particularly the Brussels, 

 and the Brompton ; also the Bullace plum. For 

 cherries, seedlings of the small black cherry or gean, 

 Prunus Avium ; and, for dwarfing, P. Mahaleb. For 

 apricots, seedlings of the wilding apricot, with the 

 muscle and Brussels plum. For |?ea(?Aes and necta- 

 rines, seedlings of the muscle, white pear-plum, and 

 Damas noir plum, the almond, and the wilding peach. 



Stocks are commonly divided into two classes, viz., 

 free stocks and dwarfing stocks. The former consist of 

 Needling plants, which naturally attain to the same size 

 as the trees from which the cions are taken. The latter 

 are plants of diminutive growth, either varieties of the 

 same species, or species of the same genus a& the cion, 

 which have a tendency to lessen the expansion of the 

 engrafted tree. The Paradise or doucin is the usual 

 dwarfing stock for apples, the Quince for pears, the 

 Bullace for plums, and Prunus Mahaleb (Cerasus Ma- 

 haleb, or sweet-scented cherry), for cherries. The 

 nature of the soil in which the grafted trees are des- 

 tined to grow should also have weight in determining 

 the choice of stocks. When the garden is naturally 

 moist, it is proper to graft pears on the quince, because 

 this plant agrees with a moist soil, and at the same 

 time the luxuriance thereby produced is checked by the 

 stock. In France, peaches are commonly budded on 

 almond stocks, to adapt them to the dry soils of that 



