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to wild stocks that will give it their juices & their vigor without transferring their flaws. 



Whoever takes up the cultivation of fruit trees must have a nursery with all of the 

 wild types or stocks on which individual trees are grafted. 



Of the wild trees, certain ones, namely the peach, almond and apricot trees, are 

 grown only from seeds. Others, the plum, pear, apple, cherry, & occasionally wild cherry 

 trees, are propagated by seeds & by suckers from their roots. Some are propagated by 

 seeds, layers, & even by cuttings. These include quince, mahaleb cherry, & the Doucin 

 and Paradise apple trees. 



Having explained everything about nurseries in detail in the Treatise on Seed 

 Propagation & in The Natural History of Trees (a) 9 lvn\\ repeat here only what is 

 necessary or directly related to my topic. 



Article I. On the right kind of soil for a nursery. 



It's a mistake to believe that trees raised in poor soil are easily restored & quickly 

 recover their strength when transplanted into fertile & well-cultivated ground. Such trees, 

 emaciated, twisted, stunted, scabby, covered with moss, and lacking good roots, will 

 languish a long time or perish, mostly choked by an excess of nourishment too strong & 

 too substantial for their delicate fibers & organs. It's another mistake to believe that a tree 

 raised in good quality soil, moist, manured, fertilized, & well tended, will bear up 

 successfully when transplanted into scanty dry soil of mediocre quality. 



(a) These two works are part of the Complete Treatise on Woods & Forests in 8 vols. in-4° . fig. Available at 

 L.F. Dclatour. bookseller, rue St. Jacques. 



