90 OF GRAF FINGj SECT. Vlf. 



Apricots being firft ready, the budding feafon begins 

 with them. The flocks to be ufed are thofe of the plum 

 fraifed from ftones or fuckers) when half an inch 

 thick, a little under or over, and the operation is to 

 take place from four to eight inches from the ground. 



Peaches and neclarines are propagated on the fame 

 fort of ftocks ; but if the plum ftock is firft budded with 

 an apricot (very low), and when of proper fize budded 

 with a peach, and efpecially a nectarine, the advantage 

 is reckoned that it takes beft fo, and comes to a better 

 bearing, producing an improved fruit, and particularly 

 the red Roman nectarine. Apricots may be expected to 

 be lefs luxuriant by double -budding, in which cafe the 

 firft bud fhould be of the Bruffels fort. 



Plums and cherries may be inoculated on fucker 

 ftocks of any kind ; yet if a free growth is required, 

 (as tor ftandards,) ftocks raifed from ftones are beft ; 

 i. e. plums on plums, and cherries on cherries, though 

 they will take upon each other. 



Pears, if for ftandards, fhould be inoculated on pear 

 ftocks, and on thofe raifed from feed, rather than 

 fuckers, but if for dwarfs, quince flocks may be beft 

 ufed, to keep the trees from growing off too faft, and 

 fo getting foon too big for their allotted fpace; white 

 thorn ftocks are fometimes ufed with the fame view* 

 but the fruit gets flony, 



Stocks for budding dwarfs fhould be three years old ; 

 but for Jlandards four or more, though fmail ftocks. 

 may be budded for ftandards alfo, (as mentioned before) 

 if the fhoot proceeding from the bud be trained to a 

 fingle ftem, till of fufficient height to be topped in 

 order to form a head. Standards ihould be from three 

 to feven feet high, before they are topped, according 

 to the height they are defired to be of, as half or full 

 fized; but dwarfs for training can hardly branch off 

 too low, being budded at five or fix inches, or lefs 

 from the ground, the fhoot from the bud fnould be 

 {hortened fat a year's growth) to five or fix eyes, or 



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