466 THE NURSERY. [Aug. 
ceed any time between the first of August and twentieth of Sep- 
tember, provided that the stocks 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 stocks; 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 441. 
New Budded Trees. 
You should now look carefully over the stocks 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 there- 
by; and where there are any shoots produced below the buds, they 
should be rubbed off. You ought, also, to examine the trees which 
were budded the former year, or grafted in the spring, and cut off 
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, 8cc to sow for 
raising stocks to bud and graft on. These may either be sown im- 
mediately, 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 them 
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 gar- 
den pots or boxes, and plunge these to their edges, and no deeper, 
in some dry border, till the time of sowing. Every day that they 
are kept out of the ground is an injury to them, and if preserved 
in a dry state till spring, very few will vegetate for a year after, and 
the far greater number not at all. 
Weed 'and water Seedlings, Sfc. 
The seedling trees and shrubs of all kinds must now be kept per- 
fectly clean from weeds; for these, if permitted to grow among 
the young plants, would totally ruin them. 
In dry weather you must be careful to give frequent waterings to 
the seedling plants, whether in beds, boxes, or pots, according to 
their respective necessities. 
Keep the ground between the rows of trees well hoed, and 
train up the various sorts of forest-trees and shrubs for the several 
purposes they are designed; but do not trim the stems of standard 
trees too close, for it is necessary to leave some small shoots to 
detain the sap, for the purpose of strengthening those parts. 
