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8. Stocks Used for Various Fruits. 



Almond Peach, hard -shelled almond, plum. 



Apple Common apple seedlings. Paradise and 



Doucin stocks, crab-apple and wild 



crab. 



Apricot Apricot and peach in mild climates and 



plum in severe ones . 



Cherry Mazzard stocks are preferred for stand- 

 ards ; Mahaleb stocks are used for 

 dwarfing. 



Medlar Hawthorn, medlar, quince. 



Mulberry Seedlings of white mulberry. 



Orange Otaheite orange, shaddock; Citrus tri- 



foliata. particularly for dwarfs. 



Peach aad Nectarine. . Peach. Plum is often used when dwarfs 



are wanted, or when the peach must 

 be grown in a too severe climate or 

 upon heavy soil. 



Pear Pear ; quince, mountain-ash. or thorn for 



dwarfs. Apple temporarily. 



Persimmon, Japanese . Native persimmon. 



Plum Plum, Myrobolan plum, peach. 



Quince The finer varieties are sometimes graf ted 



upon strong-growing kinds like the 

 Angers 



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Theory is the general,— practice, the soldiers. 



—Leonardo da Vinci. 



