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TiIE NURSERY-LIST 327whole operation is co~crcd with earth, there is no danger of(lrying up, a.5 is sometimes the case when fruit trees are topgraftd .“ A very important consideration, to insure success, is to equalizethe stock and cion. If, therefore, large st,ocks are to be grafted,we must ha\-c strong, well-developed wood for the cions, and havel)u& enough to taliCb up the full flow of sap, while small stocks, if~lsetl at all, shoul~l be grafted with small cions of onI>? two or threelwis. \Yhc~n the stocks are strong, I take t.wo cions and insertow on CYLC~~ sick of the stock, of full length, say from 14 to 16in(*ht5, ;inrl with six to tbight buds each. This has many advantages.‘UN> principal OIW is tllut they will elaborate anal work up the entireflow Clf sap. i\notiwr is, that if the cions have well-developedfruit l)ucls, thti>* will produce quite a number of clusters from theiippcr hds, and thus show the character of the fruit the first year.1 IIUIY~ pickr~tl a thousand pounds of grapes from an acre thusgr:lfttvi, the first summer, and a full1 crop of five or six tons per acret ht: follr~~ving stlabx)n. .Another ad\-antage is t,hat it establishes11~1 crown of the graft at the right distance from the ground, as thet IlrtY~ uppt”r thuds ivill produce the canes for the nest season’sht3riilg. if Ibotli GoiiS grow, cut off the kv-cukcst. above the junctionthe nest spring, lc2t\.ing -only the strongest. T generally find thattlltb wholly surfacth of the stock is c~ver~~tl 1~)~ the ;WW growth, andtllat tlic* junction lWwet&ii stock and cion is perfect. Anotheratl\‘;lnta- arc more apt to run over and tlisturl> the smallgraft5 than thtb I;trg~~(b ones, which arc protected by hills of earth~I)oIY~ the% 5:1irf;1c(h ; nor are the young shoot.; disturl,ecl and brokenSO tb:l.-;il>. 11~7 c;trt~l~~~ Iluntl~ or high winds. ;I stake should be driven