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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



SEEDLING STOCKS. 

 Fig. 89. 



a. Seedling stock of one year's growth, shortened and ready for transplanting. 



b. A well-rooted seedling stock, suitable for cleft-grafting, -with its third year's growth, 



having been once transplanted. 



aftina; 



or 



■juddine: should be raised from 



All stocks for 

 seed. 



The various fruit-seeds desired for producing stocks should 

 be collected from healthy trees in their season, and, instead of 

 being stored dry, as garden-seeds, should be mixed with earth, 

 and kept either in a cellar or out of doors, the latter being 

 preferaljle Trhere it can be done with safety. The housewife's 

 practice of placing peach-pits under a flat stone in the fill is 

 perfect so far as relates to the fulfillment of the conditions nec- 

 essary or desiraljle to the healtliful preservation of all fruit- 

 seetls through the winter. All tree-seeds may be advantage- 

 ously sown in the fall if they c;in be secm-ed from vermin, 

 unless for special reasons it is ja'eferred to keep them until 

 spring. 



