By Jean Baptiste Van Mons. 321 



happens, we cut the stock down to half an inch under 

 ground ; we then obtain many suckers which we lay in like 

 manner; these shoots will naturally take a vertical direc- 

 tion, in which they should be preserved by a slight stake, 

 which strengthens them singularly, and would make them well 

 fitted for being budded when young, if it were not preferable 

 to select for that purpose wood of two or three years old. 

 In the year that a plant is intended to be budded, care must 

 be taken to prune back all its branches, including the top. 



