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combining these two qualities, which are quite 

 necessary to constitute a good apple ; or if you 

 have a favourite early apple, and would wish to 

 get one nearly like it that 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 likewise 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, 

 or graft : many persons (for want of sufficient 

 practice) to this day, suppose the stock will 

 affect the scion, and consequently the fruit 

 produced from the tree grafted on a stock 

 whose fruit is different ; but during my prac- 

 tice I never have known in any instance, the 

 fruit to become altered through the stock it 

 was grafted on : in order to illustrate this fact 



