NEW KINDS OF APPLES. 65 



considerable distance of ajiy other ; for instance, 

 suppose you wish to raise a new keeping apple, it 

 will be necessary to choose two good keeping 

 apples, and if one were very sour, and the other 

 sweet, it will have a great chance of combining 

 these two qualities, which are quite necessary to 

 constitute a good apple : or if you have a favou- 

 rite early apple, and would wish to get one 

 nearly like it that it would keep, then plant by 

 it a good keeping apple, and you will have a 

 chance of getting one nearly like it, and probably 

 much better. 



If your seedlings are at all strong, the best 

 method, and most quick to prove them, is, the 

 following spring after they have come up, to 

 graft them on young fruit-bearing trees ; it will 

 bring them into bearing early, and by so doing, 

 you ^ikewise have an opportunity of noticing 

 which are likely to become good bearers. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIFFERENT MODES OF 

 GRAFTING. 



Par. 76. Various are the opinions respecting 

 the influence the stock will have on the scion. 



