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as an outer mold for its growth and provides the material for its development. In the 

 Natural History of Trees, I've dealt with grafting and its principles in greater detail. They 

 can be summed up in two points: a relationship or similarity between the properties of the 

 graft & the stock, and a relationship or connection between the same parts of the graft & 

 of the stock. Fulfillment of these two conditions (the second one performed with a little 

 skill at the proper time & in the proper way) assures the success of this horticultural 

 procedure, as commendable as it is simple & easy. 



CHAPTER 1 1. 



Planting of Fruit Trees. 



Articlk I. On the Age & Size of the Plant. 



YOUNG trees raised, looked after, and grafted in a nursery as we've described, should be 

 taken out as soon as they're ready to be permanently situated. This depends more on the 

 strength of the stock than on that of the graft. All fruit trees can be planted (and peach 

 trees ought to be planted) a year after grafting, i.e. fourteen to seventeen months after bud 

 grafting & nine to eleven months after cleft grafting. This can be done provided that 

 stocks of low-stemmed trees are at the stage of putting down roots often to twelve lignes 

 [see translator's note, p. 0053] in diameter, or from thirty to thirty-six lignes in 

 circumference; those of half-standard ones from fifteen to eighteen lignes in diameter, & 

 those of standard ones from two to two-&-a-half inches in diameter or at least six inches 

 in circumference; & from twelve to eighteen lignes in diameter for five or six feet of 

 trunk. Whether this trunk develops from the stock 



