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surer of success, by putting it off till the lateness of the sea¬ 
son has diminished the vigour of the tree. With a view to 
prevent the inconveniencies resulting from the ordinary prac¬ 
tice, as soon as the bud is well taken, the stock must be cut 
two or three inches above it; as, by this means, it will be 
preserved, and excited to develope itself. 
When the peach tree is budded on the almond, it acquires 
strength sooner than when it is budded on the plum tree, 
while the borders reap an evident advantage from it by not 
having their manure exhausted to no purpose, in supporting 
the suckers of the latter. I pulled out last year suckers from 
the same plum tree at five different times, all of them almost 
as strong as those which are commonly used in transplanting. 
Whenever this stock is to be used, it should have been raised 
from a kernel, as it becomes finer, and throws out fewer shoots, 
than that which is raised from a sucker. 
The principles which I have just explained, in the cultiva¬ 
tion of the peach, are applicable to that of the nectarine aad 
apricot. Be it as it may, the practice of raising different trees 
after each other, is, independently of any hypothesis, adapted 
to all circumstances. 
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