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THE NURSERY. 



Budding. 



This is the proper season for budding or inoculating peaches, 

 nectarines, almonds, apples and pears; also apricots on peach or 

 almond stalks; but when the apricot is to be worked on the plum, 

 it ought to be done in July. 



Cherries, plums, or any other fruit trees may also be budded in 

 this month if the bark parts freely from the stalk. Pears ought to 

 be inoculated in the early part of the month, or while the sap flows 

 freely; but the peach, nectarine, almond and apple will succeed 

 any time between the first of August and twentieth of September, 

 provided that the stalks are young and vigorous. 



You may now inoculate all such curious trees and shrubs as you 

 wish to propagate in that way; there are very few but will succeed 

 at this time if worked on good and suitable stalks; but when you 

 find the bark not to part or rise freely, it will be almost in vain to 

 attempt the work. Many kinds now take a second growth, and 

 when that is perceivable it will be a very proper time to inoculate 

 them. For general instructions on this subject see page 442. 



Neiv Budded Trees. 



You should now look carefully over the stalks which were bud- 

 ded in July, and in three weeks, or at most a month after their 

 being worked, loosen the bandages, lest the buds should be pinched 

 thereby; and where there are any shoots produced below the buds, 

 they should be rubbed oft". You ought, also, to examine the trees 

 which were budded the former year, or grafted in the spring, and 

 cut oft' all the shoots that are produced beneath the inoculations or 

 grafts; for if these are permitted to grow they will starve the proper 

 shoots. 



Preserving the Stones of Fruits. 



Preserve, peach, plum, cherry, and apricot stones, &c. to sow for 

 raising stocks to bud and graft on. These may either be sown 

 immediately or preserved till October or any of the following 

 months, in common garden earth or moist sand; but it will be 

 necessary to embrace the first opportunity in spring, if not before, 

 to sow them before the stones open and the radicles begin to shoot, 

 otherwise a great number of these would be injured in the act of 

 sowing. You may mix the stones with cither earth or sand, which 

 put into garden pots or boxes, and plunge these to their edges, and 

 no deeper, in some dry border, till the time of sowing. Every day 

 that they are kept out of the ground is an injury to them, and if 



