FRUITS. CHAP. 



being divided between it and the six inches of stock left 

 in the other way, 



218. There are some advantages that budding has over 

 grafting, and these I think it right to mention. In the 

 first place, universal experience has proved that certain 

 trees succeed very much better when budded than the 

 same trees do when grafted : such are, the peach, nec- 

 tarine, apricot, plum and cherry 5 indeed, the rule is, that 

 all stone fruits do better budded than grafted. That they 

 are, when budded, less given to gum, a disease peculiar 

 to stone fruits and often very pernicious to them. You 

 may, also, by budding, put two or more branches upon 

 a stock that would be too weak to take so many grafts j 

 and you may bud in July when grafting has failed iu 

 March and April. The disadvantage of budding, is, that 

 the trees are rendered one year later in coming into 

 bearing than when you graft. 



219. PLANTING. Under the heads of the several 

 trees in the list which will follow hereafter, directions 

 will be given with regard to the age, the size, and other 

 circumstances which will be found to vary according to 

 the several purposes and situations for which the trees 

 are intended. I shall here, therefore, confine myself 

 merely to the act of planting ; that is to say, the manner 

 of removing a young tree from one spot and placing it 

 in another ; the .rules here being applicable to all trees. 

 The first thing to be observed is, that, though trees will 

 grow if kept out of the ground for a considerable time, 

 they ought to be kept in that state as short a time as 

 possible, and, during even that short time, the roots 



