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that are fatal to the finer varieties ; but the highest fla- 

 vored seedlings are often quite as susceptible of injury as 

 those budded or grafted. High-flavored varieties are 

 usually tender. 



Plum stocks are recommended by foreign writers ; but 

 they are of little use in this climate, for the graft soon out- 

 grows the stock and breaks off. 



Peach stocks are raised by planting the stones two oi 

 three inches deep, in the autumn or winter. If the stones 

 are cracked, they are more sure to grow. Abundance of 

 stocks can often be secured by taking the volunteers that 

 spring up under the trees early in the spring, when about 

 an inch high, and transplanting in rows two and a half feet 

 apart and sixteen inches in the row. Plant them in good 

 soil, where they will grow rapidly ; for on this, more than 

 anything else, the success of budding depends. If the sea- 

 son is good, the best will do to bud in June. When the 

 bud starts, the top may be headed down, and if the stocks 

 are vigorous, they will make sufficient growth to be fit for 

 transplanting the next winter. Budding may be continued, 

 while the bark rises freely, until the first of October; the 

 last will make no growth until spring. It should, however, 

 be performed as early as the stocks Avill admit. It is best 

 in budding, when you do not wish to preserve the scion 

 a day or two, to leave a portion of the leaf, say half an 

 inch, attached with the leaf-stalk to the bud, as it attracts 

 the sap, and the bud is more likely to take. The bud 

 should be put in the north side of the stock, to screen it 

 from the sun. Any of the trees which have failed in 

 taking the bud may be taken up, and grafted in the root 

 the ensuing winter; a mode of propagation which for- 

 tunately succeeds well here, as it enables us to procure 

 scions of valuable varieties, in a dormant state, from all 

 sections of the Union. 



