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OF A NURSERY. 



SECT. VI. 



In default of thefe naturally dwarf-growing flocks, 

 ihofe raifed from fuckers are fometimes ufed, as lefs 

 likely to grow off freely than feedling flocks. Layers 

 alfo are proper for dwarf flocks, and they are com- 

 monly to be had from the codling all layers mufl be 

 carefully taken up to preferve the roots. 



For pears, dwarf flocks are raifed from quince cut- 

 tings, layers, or fuckers ; but as quince {hoots are 

 commonly of a weak and crooked growth, the flocks 

 from fear feed's are moflly ufed. $ut fuckers maybe 

 obtained from pears, quinces, &c. by cutting down an 

 old tree within a foot of the ground, and thefe being 

 planted out for a year or two, become good flocks. 

 If the fuckers, or fhoots, lay high, they may be 

 earthed up to induce them to flrike. But fuckers will 

 be often forced, by only cutting off the top of an old 

 tree, which is an experiment to be recommended, (in 

 pmrs particularly) as there will be formed a new head, 

 and an opportunity given to graff for another, or a 

 better fort. And if there are no fuckers, there may be 

 low-placed fhoots proper for layers, of thofe trees that 

 will thus flrike, and mofl trees will, if not the firfl, 

 perhaps the fecond year. 



Stocks froixi fuckers, for dwarf plums and cherries, 

 are in one fenfe better than thofe raifed from flones, as 

 being lefs free in their growth : and the common red 

 cherry and the black are to be preferred for flocks, whe- 

 ther as to fuckers or feedlings. If fuckers of any tree 

 grow at a proper dijiance from the parent flock, they 

 may be graffed or inoculated without removal, till 

 wanted to plant out for fruiting, i. e. in a year or two. 

 Suckers that are for flocks, fhould always be planted 

 out in autumn, and fland (at leaf!) to the following 

 fpring or fummer, twelvemonths before they are ufed. 

 Apricots, peaches and nellarines are graffed by inocu- 

 lation on plum flocks, but rather on thofe raifed from 

 flones. except for apricots it hardly fignifies. Stocks of 

 the wheat plum, or the mufcle are the belt. Figs, quinces > 



