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ground, and the shoots from the graft will rise and form a stem. 

 "When strong stocks are to be grafted in a nursery in a cool or 

 shady situation, it will be prudent to take them up and replant 

 them a year or two before grafting. "Without this precaution, 

 there would be danger that the remission in the flow of the 

 sap, brought about by the violento peration of heading-down 

 the stock, would occasion disorders and provoke the appearance 

 of canker on the stem. Transplanting, seconded by a partial 

 pruning of the branches, will prepare the stock for the mutilations 

 which accompany grafting. The Doucin and Paradise stocks, 

 which are intented to furnish low standards, should be grafted 

 close to the ground. Young plants are to be preferred, and 

 they should be budded one year after planting. Inspect the 

 grafts a fortnight afterwards and replace any that have 

 missed. In dry soils, where the sap soon declines, the scion 

 branches may not be able to ripen sufficiently ; in that case 

 shoots of the previous year should be preserved in a cool cellar 

 buried in sand; the undeveloped buds of these are to be 

 grafted in the months of May or June when the stocks are in 

 sap. An old or hardened stock should be branch-grafted. 

 When planting it, the buds should be removed from the roots, 

 and at all times the suckers should be extirpated. Ornamental 

 Apple-trees are propagated in the same way as those grown 

 for fruit. 



The Plum. 



Stock. — Damson and St. Julien (from seed) ; Myrobalan 

 (from cuttings). Mode of Grafting. — Shield-budding (in July 

 and August) ; cleft- grafting (in March and September) ; in- 

 laying ; the English, method (in March) ; close to the ground, 

 or as standards. 



Remarks. — Suckers should never be used as stocks in pro- 

 pagating the plum. The Myrobalan should be budded rather 



