^4^ OF ALMONDS. 



6. Dwarf Almond. Duham. n. 8. t 3. Foit, 



et Turp. Fr. L 99. 



7. Double Flowering Almond. Poit, et Turp. 



t 99. 

 The last two, being beautiful early flowering 



shrubs, are planted for ornament only. 

 • Almonds are propagated by budding them upon 

 Plum, Almond, or Peach stocks. The next 

 Spring you may train them for standards, or let 

 them grow for half-standards ; but the common 

 way is, to bud them as high as you wish the stem 

 to be ; and the second year after they may be 

 planted out for good. If you are to transplant 

 them into a dry soil, let it be done in October, 

 when the leaves begin to decay ; but if into wet 

 ground, the month of February is the proper 

 season. Almonds budded on Plum stocks thrive 

 best in a wet soil, and on Almond and Peach 

 stocks in a dry. 



When the young trees are brought from the 

 nursery, they should never be cut till the young 

 shoots begin to break,— as directed for Peaches 

 and Nectarines. 



Almonds require nearly the same management 

 in pruning as standard Apricots. After wet 

 Autumns, when the wood is not well ripened, 

 hard Winters are apt to kill the shoots ; in that 

 case, they should be cut down to the sound wood, 

 taking care to cut out the cross shoots that rub 

 against others, leaving the tree open in the middle, 

 pruning the shoots about the same length as 



