^2f}6 OF GRAFTING AND BLDDlxNfG. 



a smooth bark ; if these trees are growing against 

 walls, or espaliers, it will be proper to graft six, 

 eight or ten branches, according to the size of the 

 trees, by which they will be much sooner furnished 

 with branches again, than when a less number of 

 cions are put in : but in standard trees, four, or at 

 most six, cions will be sufficient. 



In the choice of young stocks for grafting, you 

 sliould always prefer such as have been raised fiom 

 the seed, and that have been once or twice trans- 

 planted. 



Next to these, are those stocks which have been 

 raised from cuttings, or layers ; but those which 

 are suckers from the roots of other trees should 

 always be rejected ; for these are never so well 

 rooted as the others, and constantly put out a great 

 number of suckers frorii their roots, whereby the 

 borders and walks of the garden will be always 

 pestered during the Summer season 5 these are not 

 only unsightly, but they also take off part of the 

 nourishment from the trees. 



If these stocks have been allowed a proper dis- 

 tance in the nursery where they have grown, the 

 wood will be better ripened and more compact, 

 than those which have grown close, and have been 

 there diawn up to a greater height ; the wood of 

 these will be soft, and their vessels large ; so that 

 the cions grafted into them will shoot very strong ; 

 but they will be less disposed to produce fruit than 

 the other ; and when trees acquire an ill habit 



