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maybe budded the same year in which it is planted, or branch- 

 grafted at least one year after planting. Trees intended to 

 form tall standards may be grafted either close to the ground 

 or otherwise. Stout, straight, and vigorous stocks are the 

 only ones that can be grafted at some height from the ground, 

 A crooked and feeble stock should be grafted close to the 

 ground. When the variety to be propagated is a tender one, 

 such as Esther Comte, Brandes, Beurre Flon, Seckel, Wredow, 

 Van Mons 3 Bonne d'Ezee, Frederic de Wurtemberg, Madame 

 Millet, Prevost, &c, we graft, as an intermediary, some hardy 

 and vigorous kind, such as Due de Nemours, Beurre 

 d'Amanlis, Beurre Hardy, Napoleon Savinien. This, grafted 

 close to the ground on the stock, soon rises into a stem, and 

 after at least two years' growth, is crown-grafted with the 

 kind which it is desired to have as a tall standard. The new 

 stock should not be grafted when either too young or too 

 weak. As the quince does not always coalesce satisfactorily 

 with the pear, care should be taken to facilitate and induce 

 their union by the selection of young and healthy plants, and 

 the employment of buds furnished with a sufficiently long 

 stiTp of bark thoroughly freed from alburnum. 



The quince should be budded close to the ground, and the 

 stock should be a young plant. In the nurseries at Orleans 

 they cut down the quince when planting it, and the following 

 year graft the finest shoot which springs from the trunk ; the 

 other shoots are removed after a year's growth, and planted 

 as cuttings to form fresh stocks. At Troves we head down 

 the plant to one foot when planting it, and bud it in the 

 following August. Except in the vicinity of the place which is 

 to receive the bud, w e do not remove any other shoots, but keep 

 them for cuttings to form fresh stocks at the proper time. 

 When the quince is too thick or too old, bud-grafting succeeds 

 badly upon it. The stock is headed down after winter. If the 



