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but it is eligible wherever it is wished to diminish the vigour 

 and growth of the tree, and where its durability is not 

 thought important. The last remark applies chiefly to the 

 Moor-park Apricot.* 



When great difficulty is found in making a tree, whether 

 fructiferous, or ornamental, of any species, or variety, 

 produce blossoms, or in making its blossoms set when pro- 

 duced, success will probably be obtained in almost all cases, 

 by budding or grafting upon a stock which is nearly enough 

 allied to the graft to preserve it alive for a few years, but not 

 permanently. The Pear tree affords a stock of this kind to 

 the Apple ; and I have obtained a heavy crop of Apples from 

 a graft which had been inserted in a tall Pear stock, only 

 twenty months previously, in a season when every blossom 

 of the same variety of fruit in the orchard was destroyed by 

 frost. The fruit thus obtained was externally perfect, and 

 possessed all its ordinary qualities ; but the cores were black 

 and without a single seed; and every blossom had cer- 

 tainly fallen abortively, if it had been growing upon its 

 native stock. The experienced gardener will readily antici- 

 pate the fate of the graft: it perished in the following winter. 

 The stock, in such cases as the preceding, promotes, in pro- 

 portion to its length, the early bearing and early death of 

 the graft. 



The authority of Duhamel gives us reason to believe, 

 that the defects of particular soils may be remedied by a 

 proper selection of stocks ; and that cases may occur, in 

 which it will be eligible to bud the Peach and Nectarine 



* The Abricot-Peche, or Abricot de Nancy of the French. 



