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trees could be made to root from the scion, that we might find varieties 

 not subject to root rot, and that we could grow other varieties upon 

 these immune varieties by top grafting. 



J. J. Kiser spoke of a horticulturalist who tried to graft our com- 

 mon kinds of apples upon the wild crab, but it proved impracticable. 



L. A. Goodman. — We can get trees to root from the scion by using a 

 very short root and a long scion. I think it is best to have all trees 

 upon their own roots as soon as possible. A nurseryman can tell when 

 a tree is upon its own roots by the form of the roots. After two years 

 the scion gives its characteristic root growth even to a seedling. 



Prof, von Schrenck. — It might prove profitable to trench around 

 infected areas to prevent the spread of the root rot. It is a discour- 

 aging task to try to get the root rot out of the ground. Thousands of 

 dollars have been spent by European governments in fighting similar 

 fungi in vineyards. 



I am anxious to get as much material as possible for the study of 

 this rot, and will send P. O. franks to those who will send me specimens. 



Brother Goodman : 



Dear Sir : — In your request to me to write something about stone 

 fruit, you made a sad mistake. I do not know near as much about any 

 kind of fruit growing as I thought I did when I began the business six 

 years ago. At that time I set out about 2,400 fruit trees, most all 

 apple. I did, however, set out 200 peach, and 200 plum. The 

 peach, because I was in a tight place and wanted something 

 that would come on quick. Like the boy after the ground 

 squirrel "I had to have it," and by scattering manure and ashes under 

 the peach trees and working it into the soil with a double-shovel and 

 small mule, I got peaches to my heart's content. One lady looked at 

 the baskets of peaches then at me and said : "You do not look as if you 

 had sense enough to grow such peaches." That's the way I thought 

 about it too; but then the trees were altogether too full and I kept 

 picking off all that did not suit me while they were growing; but they 

 paid for the labor and if I never see another peach on those trees we are 

 even. I have some six or eight varieties, but the Elberta are all that 

 paid any money. Some were set out on land that was so rockv that it 

 was impossible to cultivate, so I dug around them some for a year or 

 two but never saw a good peach from them. One year, not thinking 

 I knew enough to spray, I hired a professional sprayer ; he knocked off 



