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CHAPTER XVIII. 



PURCHASE OF TREES. — PROPAGATION. 



Pears, Apples, Plums, and Cherries may be purchased 

 of any reliable nurseryman ; and we may here say that 

 we do not advise propagation by amateurs — for this 

 reason — we never yet saw any home-grown trees 

 equal to those produced by professionals ; because 

 there is a certain modus, which only experience can 

 impart, often depending on very minute matters which 

 a long treatise would scarcely give an amateur an 

 idea of, and much dexterity of operation, and expert 

 discrimination in choice of stocks is required— and 

 this especially in the case of Plums, where there are 

 seven or eight distinct stocks used. There is further 

 the previous preparation and transplanting of stocks, 

 that we at once pass over the subject of propagation 

 in these fruits. 



Propagation — Practical Fruit Charts. — During 

 the author's Mastership of the Worshipful Company 

 of Fruiterers, a set of five charts were prepared by 

 his daughter from original sketches, showing the 

 various operations of planting, pruning, budding, 

 grafting, nutting, and layering. These charts with a 

 handbook of plain directions were published by the 

 Company for teaching Horticulture in our Elementary 

 Schools' and County Council centres, they will be 

 found of the utmost value for beginners in Fruit 

 Culture — demonstrating the various operations, as they 

 do in such a practical form. They can be obtained 



