Specifications for Successful Fruit-Gbowing IT 15 



experimental evidence Las been ofifered to prove that varieties of 

 fruit can be changed in the least by continuous bud-selection. 

 Fruit-growers should steer clear of " pedigreed stock " and '' im- 

 proved strains " of varieties until the new production can be seen 

 somewhere by competent judges growing side by side with the 

 parents. 



stocks 



Apples may be bought upon Paradise, Doucin, or homegrown or 

 French-grown standard stocks. The first two named are suitable 

 only for the amateur, and, of the standards, those on the foreign 

 seedlings are usually much the better. Pears are grown as stand- 

 ards on French seedlings or as dwarfs on the Angers quince. 



Fig. 125. A Well-tilled Orchard 



The dwarfs are gradually going out of vogue. The peach should 

 be worked upon seedlings from southern pits and not upon those 

 from cannery seeds. Sour or sweet cherries on ]\razzard stock are 

 far superior to those on the Mahaleb stock. Plums are grown 

 upon several stocks and no one seems to know which are the best 

 for the several species of this fruit, the different types of soil, and 

 the hundreds of varieties. 



