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graft, and a proportionably greater number the third 

 year. The flavour of the fruit is superior to that 

 from trees grafted on plum-stocks. 



If budding be preferred to grafting, the shoot pro- 

 duced by the bud should be pinched after it has grown 

 six or eight inches, and only five buds allowed to 

 push ; the five shoots produced by these buds should 

 themselves be shortened to five or six inches, and dis- 

 budded as they push, so as to produce a fan of ten 

 shoots, as in the case of the grafted tree. If the 

 wood so produced is properly ripened, it will hardly 

 fail to produce blossoms the following year. {Gard, 

 Mag. iii. 149.) 



We highly approve of Mr. Cameron's remarks in 

 the main, although we would prefer thus preparing 

 the plants in the kitchen garden in a temporary 

 situation, and removing them to their permanent sta- 

 tion at the close of the second or third year. Our 

 objections to this portion of the plan are, that the 

 tree would form tap-roots, or at least roots inclined 

 to ramble a considerable depth : they should not, 

 moreover, be allowed to occupy principal stations 

 whilst many temporary ones can be found, and which 

 will equally suffice. Frequent transplanting whilst 

 young, we hold to be the only legitimate procedure by 

 which to obtain abundance of fibrous surface roots : 

 these being obtained, well-ripened wood will follow as 

 a matter of course. 



