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For half standards tolerable stocks can be 

 procured by sowing early, and as soon as potted 

 separately let them be pushed on by hot-bed 

 heat for a season or two : when if they have 

 been regularly trimmed up to a leader, and had 

 sufficient pot room, they will be in good order 

 for working the second summer ^ which I gene- 

 rally do by inoculation : but should the above 

 manner of grafting be adopted on these tall 

 stems, it will of course be very inconvenient to 

 cover them closely with glasses. I would there- 

 fore recommend the leaves to be trimmed off 

 to about one -fourth of their length: for if left 

 on in a full state of respiration, the action of the 

 air on their pores very soon deprive them, and 

 by them the scion, of the small portion of vege- 

 table life detached with them from the parent 

 stock, but the above precaution renders the 

 scion in a degree dormant, and by tying a little 

 moss over the claying to keep it from the air 

 and sun, it will soon become sufficiently united. 

 For dwarf trees I prefer stocks that have not 

 been forced after the first potting. 



There being but very few green-house plants 

 propagated by any of the other artificial me- 

 thods, viz. inoculation, laying, or inarching, it 



