CHOICE OF TREES. 



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reeled, they will not fail to become healthy 

 and fruitful. 



Trees that are mossy, or have a rough 

 wrinkled bark, or of a low slender growth, 

 or such as are affected by canker, (which 

 shews itself in the young wood and gene- 

 rally two or three inches above the graft 

 or bud) are to be rejected. If the tree be a 

 Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, or Plum, and any 

 gum appears on the lower part of it, do not 

 fix upon that. Let the tree you fix upon 

 (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 

 form. 



I prefer maiden trees of one year from 

 the working, with their entire heads, because 

 I consider it of great importance to the fu- 

 ture success of the trees, to have them from 

 as early a period as possible under my own 

 care and management, for without very great 

 attention the first three or four years after 

 budding or grafting, a tree may be so disfi- 

 gured that it cannot be rectified, and may 

 also have suffered so much by injurious treat- 

 ment, that it cannot easily be recovered 

 afterwards. 



If a tree has been allowed to grow for two 

 years after budding or grafting without being 

 headed down, such a tree is not so good as 

 one that was headed down after having 



