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FRUIT-GARDENING. 



CHAPTER L 



SELECTING I'KUIT-TBEES IN THE KTTBSEBT. 



^ In the choice of finit-trees, all possible care and attention 



t" \ are necessary ; for, to have trees that do not answer the expec- 

 ' tations of the proprietor, is a great disappointment. As the 



4, young gardner may need such directions calculated to govern 



L^ him in his choice, I shall endeavor to furnish them. "Whatever 

 ^ species or varieties of finit-trees are wanted, choose those trees 

 I that are vigorous and straight, and of a healthy appearance. 



^ Whether they have been grafted or budded, be careful to 

 K select such as have been worked on young stocts. Grafts and 

 \ buds inserted into old, crooked, stunted stocks, seldom succeed 

 >v,^ "• weU. Trees that are healthy, have always a smooth, clean, 

 ^ shining hark. Such as are mossy, or have a rough, wrinkled 



bark, or are the least affected by canker, should be rejected. 

 J Canker is discoverable in the young wood, and generally two 

 t or three inches above the graft or bnd. If the tree be an 

 Apricot, Nectarine, Peach, or Plum, and any gum appears on 

 the lower part of it, do not fix upon that. Let the tree you 

 select (if a dwarf) be worked about six inches from the ground, 

 and only one graft or bud should be upon each stock ; for when 

 ■^> there are more, the tree cannot be brought to so handsome a 

 i form. 

 i In some of the following articles, it will be seen that several, 



