FRUITS. CHAP. 



grafting. I cannot dismiss this part of the subject with- 

 out exhorting the reader never to make use of suckers 

 as stocks : by a very little additional care, you obtain 

 seedling stocks j and, really, if a man have not the trifling 

 portion of industry that is here required, he is unworthy of 

 the good fruit and the abundant crops which, with proper 

 management, he may generally make himself sure of. 



206. GRAFTING. When I come to the alphabetical 

 list of fruits, I shall speak of those circumstances con- 

 nected with grafting in which one sort of fruit differs 

 from another j but the mode of performing the operation 

 of grafting, and the mode of doing other things relative 

 to the stock and the scion, are the same in all cases, 

 therefore I shall in this place give the instructions neces- 

 sary for a knowledge of the arts of grafting and budding. 

 There is another thing, too, which is equally applicable in 

 all cases, and which ought to be mentioned before I enter 

 upon the subject of grafting and budding; and that is 

 this, that the stock ought to stand one whole summer upon 

 the spot where it is grafted or budded before that operation 

 is performed upon it. If stocks be planted out in the Fall 

 the sap does not rise vigorously enough in the Spring to 

 afford a fair chance for the growing of the graft j but, 

 another remark of equal importance is that fruit-trees 

 should stand only one summer on the spot whence they 

 are to be removed to their final destination, because, if 

 they stand longer than this, they will have large and long 

 roots, great amputations must take place, and the tree 

 suffer exceedingly. 



207. Grafting is the joining of a cutting of one to ano- 

 ther tree in such a wav as that the tree, on which the 



