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A great many Kings in this state are affected in that way and 

 the apples have been ruined entirely so that a great many who 

 formerly raised Kings largely have discontinued the cultivation . 

 of them on that account. 



Mr. Allis. We are very seldom troubled in that way. I 

 don't think we would find one in a barrel that would be affected. 



Mr. Cook. In studying the results of the cold winter here, 

 there are a good many reasons to think that the stock you graft 

 into will partake of the nature of the top, of the scions; that 

 you will not prevent disease any more by taking some other 

 stock than if you had bought the tree; that the top determines 

 the whole tree to the roots. 



Prof. Craig. I am glad to say that I don't think this is true. 

 Of course there are influences that go from the top to the stock, 

 but the constitution of the stock, specially when it is top-grafted, 

 will remain throughout. The character of the tissue, which 

 largely determines its susceptibility to a disease of that type, will 

 remain unchanged. That is the experience of most fruit 

 growers. The same thing runs through the entire experience 

 of horticulture. For instance, in Italy and' France at the present 

 time vine culture has been saved by the importation by those 

 countries of American vines, because the native vines were sub- 

 ject to the attacks of an insect; our American vines are not 

 subject to the attacks of that insect. They import our Ameri- 

 can vines and graft their native vines on them. The same rule 

 holds true in other lines. 



Mr. Hardy. I like to hear this because we had a professor 

 here two years ago who said that the stock had no influence on 

 the scion, or the scion on the stock. Now any farmer who ever 

 grafted a tree knows better than that. In regard to the influ- 

 ence of the top on the stock, I had a little experience with crab 

 stocks, and I have as handsome baldwin tops as you ever saw- 

 in an orchard, but the stock is crab stock and always will be. 



I have one tree that no one on earth could tell where the 

 union was were it not for the difference in the bark. It is crab 

 bark just the same as when the Baldwin scion was put in there. 

 The union is just as smooth as can be. 



Mr. Cum MINGS. I have noticed in the past few years on the 

 underside of the newly formed leaves a little green louse. This 

 last spring the trees were grafted — I grafted them quite low — 



