THE CHOICE OF STOCKS.
Another discovery of yet more importance to fruit-growers has been demonstrated in great detail at East Mailing. Apples may be budded or grafted on four or five different classes of stock, graded according to size ; but it is essential to choose your size not according to your abstract desires but according to the nature of your soil. By means of an analysis of your soil you may tell with some precision how big or how small a stock it is wise to select. Dwarf stock on a thin soil means a minimum of fruit. The science of fruit culture and of the control of pests increases very solidly. Last season proved peculiarly suitable for the use of sprays—or dust vice sprays ; and the tar distillate washes, both in Holland and England, have greatly increased their expectation.
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