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are : I can't recommend any other fort of 

 ftock, be the trees defigned for walls, efpa- 

 liers or dwarf ftandards. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of Stocks proper for Almonds, with the 

 earlieft way of bringing the trees to 

 bear. 



Single bloffomed almonds, with fweet 

 kernels, will produce fruit, either if 

 they are planted againft walls, or are ftand- 

 ards, and are proper plants for the mix- 

 tures generally made in the quarters of a 

 large wildernefs, or in bofquets of fhrubs 

 on extenfive lawns ; they make a beautiful 

 appearance early in the fpring, by the 

 abundance of their pale red coloured flow- 

 ers, and bear fruit very plentifully without 

 much trouble. 



They may be propagated by budding on 

 the mufcle or common red wheat plum, or 

 raifed from ftones ; tho' they bear not fo 

 early this laft way : but if a branch from 

 one of the young plants raifed from ftones, 

 be budded on the fame ftock, it will fooner 

 E pro- 



