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THE NURSERY. 
Budding. 
This is the proper season for budding or inoculating peaches, 
nectarines, almonds, apples and pearsj also apricots on peach or 
almond stalks; but when the apricot is to be worked on the plum, 
it ought to be done in July. 
Cherries, plums, or any other fruit trees may also be budded in 
this month if the bark parts freely from the stalk. Pears ought to 
be inoculated in the early part of the month, or while the sap flows 
freely; but tlie peach, nectarine, almond and apple will succeed 
any time between the first of August and twentieth of September, 
provided that the stalks are young and vigorous. 
You may now inoculate all such curious trees and shrubs as you 
wish to propagate in that way; there are very few but will succeed 
at this time if worked on good and suitable stalks; but when you 
find the bark not to part or rise freely, it will be almost in vain to 
attempt the work. Many kinds now take a second growth, and 
when that is perceivable it will be a very proper time to inoculate 
them. For general instructions on this subject see page 442. 
Neio Budded Trees. 
You should now look carefully over the stalks which were bud- 
ded in July, and in three weeks, or at most a month after their 
being worked, loosen the bandages, lest the buds should be pinched 
thereby; and where there are any shoots produced below the buds, 
they should be rubbed oft". You ought, also, to examine the trees 
which were budded the former year, or grafted in the spring, and 
cut oft" all the shoots that are produced beneath the inoculations or 
grafts; for if these are permitted to grow they will starve the proper 
shoots. 
Preserving the Stones of Fruits. 
Preserve, peach, plum, cherry, and apricot stones, &c. to sow for 
raising stocks to bud and graft on. These may either be sown 
immediately or preserved till October or any of the following 
months, in common garden earth or moist sand; but it will be 
necessary to embrace the first opportunity in spring, if not before, 
to sow tliem before the stones open and the radicles begin to shoot, 
otherwise a great number of these would be injured in the act of 
sowing. You may mix the stones with either earth or sand, which 
put into garden pots or boxes, and plunge these to their edges, and 
no deeper, in some dry border, till the time of sowing. Every day 
that thej are kept out of the ground is an injury to them, and if 
