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to say nothing of the disappointment to the purchaser ; 

 for, unless the mistake be detected at first, the longer the 

 tree grows before it is discovered, the more time will 

 have been lost in its cultivation ; and, be it remem- 

 bered, this time is irrecoverable. 



The foregoing descriptions of many of our most po- 

 pular apples, it is presumed, will be found sufficiently 

 clear, to enable the pomologist to detect these egre- 

 gious and every-day blunders, and to ascertain whether 

 he cultivates those fruits that have been sold him, or 

 whether he has had others substituted for them. 



Propagation. 



There are only two kinds of stocks on which it is 

 desirable to propagate the apple in this country: the 

 Wild Crab, from which our verjuice is obtained, and 

 the Doucin stock. The first is that for our most vigor- 

 ous and hardy sorts for orchard planting ; the second 

 for our more tender and delicate dessert apples, for 

 dwarf trees, and espaliers for the garden. This last is 

 most generally, in our nurseries, called the Paradise 

 stock, although widely different from the Pomme Pa- 

 radis of the French, a sort not worth growing in this 

 country. 



In the cider counties, the crab is generally trained 

 up standard high, and when grown sufficiently large for 

 the purpose, it is grafted the height at which it is in* 

 tended the head of the tree should be formed : this is 

 generally from seven to eight feet from the ground. In 

 the nurseries, all the apples intended for standards are 

 grafted about nine inches high only, allowing them to 

 grow up standard high, and forming the head upon the 

 second year's shoot ; but, instead of grafting them, a 

 much better method is to bud them, as they make much 

 better trees in the same length of time. 



