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for the mod Part thick and hard Bark and old 
Roots, which come on but flowly when they 
are removed to make Apple-Trees. Likewife, 
if thefe Stocks be not grafted very low, (and if 
they are, a Year’s Growth or two will be loft) 
they will put forth Branches and Suckers of 
their own every Year in fuch Abundance, that 
without conftant pruning them, the Graft will 
be in Danger of being ftarved. But a better 
Advantage may be made of Crab-Trees in 
Hedge Rows, rough Grounds and Woods, by 
grafting them where they ftand, for here they 
will thrive better. The only Objection is, that 
a Man cannot be furnifhed with Trees of a 
good Largenefs to bear fo foon by Stocks raifed 
from Kernels and Stones, as thofe got out of 
Woods, &c. or thofe raifed by Suckers, that 
may be of feveral Years Growth before ufed. 
To which it is anfwered, and approved by 
daily Experience, that if at fome Time you 
get Crab Stocks of fix or feven Years Growth 
out of the Woods, or Hedges, or Suckers, and 
fit them in order to be grafted, the Stocks and 
Suckers you fo graft, for fix or eight Years 
may continue larger and bigger than Trees that 
come of Kernels and S tones. But yet thefe 
lefter Trees (hall fo get Ground of the other, 
that, by the tenth or twelfth Year, they (hall not 
only overtake them, but outftrip them in 
Growth. 
Of the Management in Seedling Plants of the 
firjl Year s Growth 5 by the Devonshire Planter 
and 
