116 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



L. H. Bailey says 1 an experiment with Winter Nelis pear, showed that 

 the fruit kept longer when grown upon Bloodgood stocks than when grown 

 upon Flemish Beauty stocks. The latter stocks in this case evidently 

 completed their growth sooner than the others. 



Mr. Washburn of Massachusetts is quoted as saying 2 that his Bartlett 

 pears all ripened about the middle of September, except those grafted on 

 the Easter Beurr6, not one of which was ripe September 12. 



E. L. Sturtevant quotes 3 the following statement of Stephen Adams 

 from the Gefmantown Telegraph: "A few years ago I cut off most of 

 the limbs of my Jargonelle and Vicar of Winkfield and grafted both with 

 Clapp's Favorite. They have commenced to bear, and those on the 

 Jargonelle are two or three weeks earlier than those on the Vicar." 



William Hill of Massachusetts says: 4 "Some years ago we grafted 

 the Styrian or Keele Hall Beurre" pear on the Citron des Cannes, which 

 is one of our earliest summer pears, and the result is that the Styrian thus 

 treated is about three weeks earlier than the same kind on the ordinary 

 pear stock and better flavored." 



C. M. Hovey 5 states that he has grafted late varieties of pear on the 

 Madeleine and other early varieties without hastening their ripening, and 

 he doubted the statement that this effect was produced on the Styrian or 

 Keele Hall pear when grafted on the Madeleine. He also says 6 that he 

 has "never found the Bartlett to become earlier by grafting it on the very 

 early sort known as Amire Joannet, or later by grafting on the Vicar of 

 Winkfield. He had grafted Clapp's Favorite on Jargonelle Dix, Beurre 

 d' Aremberg, Columbia, Glout Morceau, Beurre" Diel, and Flemish Beauty 

 Dana's Hovey on Gustin's Summer, Harvard, and Vicar of Winkfield; and 

 Bartlett on Winter Nelis, Easter Beurre^, Green Chisel, and Onondaga, 

 without changing the season of ripening in the least." 



M. T. Masters, editor of Gardeners' Chronicle, states 7 that pears 

 ripen earlier on the mountain ash than on pear stocks. A. J. Downing 

 says" that pears so grown keep longer, which would hardly be expected if 

 they ripened earlier. Hornby is quoted 9 as saying that pears grafted on 

 the mountain ash were retarded in flowering. Another writer, however, 

 in the same connection stated that in his experiments he had not observed 

 that the blossoms were retarded. 



In the report of the United States Department of Agriculture for 1865, 

 page 202, W. C. Lodge says: "The apple is rarely used to give roots to 

 the pear. In a few instances, however, the effect of the apple roots upon 

 the pear has been astonishing. Mr. Perkins of New Jersey, in experi- 

 menting with various stocks, used the scion of a superior variety of the 

 hedge pear, thick skinned and late in ripening. On apple roots he found 

 the pear grown to more than twice its largest size on its own roots, and 

 when carefully picked and house-ripened, proved to be the finest winter 

 pear, being a fine orange color with tender flesh, exceedingly rich and 



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There is considerable testimony that in apples stocks of early varieties 

 tend to hasten the maturity of fruits grafted upon them. Mr. D. T. Fish 

 of England, states 111 that Paradise stock tends at times to hasten maturity, 



i Garden and Forest, 1890, p. 101. 



2 Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc, 1880, p. 115. 



3 Proceedings Mass. Hort. Soc, 1880, p. 97. 

 * The Garden, 1873, p. 334. 



5 Proceedings Mass. Hort Soc., 1880, p. 104. 



6 Country Gentleman, 1S81, p. 678. 



' Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed., 1881, Vol. XII, p. 213. 

 8 Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 1869, p. 29. 

 '■' Gardener's Magazine, 1842, p. 228. 

 i" The Garden, Vol. XX, 1881, p. 591. 



