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152 THE NURSERY MANIJALPeach, 1 year, medium, 3-4 ft., &-~6 in.Ylum, 2 par.?, X0. 1, 5-7 ft,, +-k in. a.nd upPlum, 2 years, medium, 4-G ft., i-+-i- in.C berry , sour, 2 years, No. 1, 4-G ft., +& in. and upCherry, sour, 3 jrears, medium, 3-4 ft., A--+-+ in.Sweet cherries will run about 1 ft. taller.Stoclis for qraftcd f rrd-frm8A fruit-tree may be budded or grafted on seedling or cuttinggrownstocks of the same species of plant, or 011 stocks of arelated species. The practice is determined wholly by t,hec~hrapness of the stock and fhe ease with which it can be grownand worked, except t.hat in the dwa.rfing of trees a speck1definite kind of stock must be supplied. It does not. follow thatthtl stocks now c*ommonly used are intrinsically the best. Thesubject is much in need of careful in\-estigation not only in thenursery hut throughout the lifetime of the resulting orchards.The choice of stocks ha:; usually not gone beyond thespcties, whether, for esnmple, the cherry shall be worked OILrnahaleb which is PROI US MahaM or on the mazzard whichis I’rwl US II 2:2’ii~rv, whether cultivated persimmon shall bebudded on IIr’ospgms Kaki, or Il. virginiana or D. Lotus.,Soon, ho\v\rt\.cr, we must refine our processes much more thanthis. \Yv tlscrcisc particular care in the variety to he propagatedfor the top or over-ground part of the plant. We mustalso i3iiscriminate as to the variety, rather than the species, ofth.t: stock or under-ground part. We shall find ways topr0pagat.e varieties and strains of stocks as we now have waysto reproduce exactly the varieties and. strains of the fruitbearingor flower-bearing part. This may increase the expenseof the finished plant, but the time i; coming when we mustreduce the sources of failure to the minimum and be willing topay for the extra certainty. We must, foresee the time whena man may plant an orchard with all human -. assurance of