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trees in an orchard are growing vigorously, while all 

 the others are cankered or shewing signs of premature 

 debility. We may plant, hoe, and drain our soils as 

 we may, but nature only provides the suitable stock ; 

 and when we meet with even but one tree which 

 flourishes in a particular soil, we need not be after- 

 wards at a loss for stocks to suit that soil. {Gard, 

 Chron, 1841, 179.) 



Suckers are only obtainable for propagation of the 

 same variety, or for forming Paradise stocks, from 

 maiden trees, that is trees growing on their own roots ; 

 from Paradise stocks previously rooted. Maiden or 

 other trees apt to throw up suckers are usually called 

 Creeping A2:)ples. 



Layering may be resorted to as an unfailing mode 

 of propagation with all apples, but as the branches 

 are usually too far from the surface for them to be 

 bent down to it, circumposition is the plan that may 

 be resorted to. This differs from layering only in 

 having the soil placed in a vessel and raised to the 

 shoot. There are pots called layering pots made for 

 this practice, and differing from the common garden 

 pot only by having a section about an inch broad cut 

 through one side, and to the centre of the bottom, for 

 the admission of the shoot or branch. 



i\L Foulup employs small tin cases of a conical 

 form, like the upper part of a funnel, two and three- 

 quarter inches in length, and two and a sixth inches 



