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more delicate kinds of vine produce larger and finer grapes when worked 

 upon coarser and more robust kinds. 



M. Temple says in the Florist and Pomologist, 1881, p. 169: "The 

 Duchess of Buecleuch, though a small berry, is of exquisite flavor. This 

 kind I once grafted on a West St. Peters, which so changed its character 

 for size of berry that it could scarcely be recognized." 



F. W. Burbidge, in his work on "Propagation of Plants," page 63, 

 says: At Battle Abbey are rods of Canon Hall and Muscat of Alexandria 

 worked side by side on the Royal Muscadine stock, and the result is com- 

 pact, well set bunches, far superior to those borne by the same varieties 

 on their own roots, and otherwise in precisely the same conditions. He 

 states that Golden Champion on its own roots is frequently blotched or 

 spotted in the berry and eventually rots if not cut when it ripens, this 

 perhaps being due to its "low maturative force." On the Raisin de Cal- 

 abre, however, in point of color, finish, and flavor, this grape is well nigh 

 perfect. 



In regard to the effect of different stocks on the peach, Thomas Andrew 

 Knight stated, in 1823, in the Transactions of the London Horticultural 

 Society, volume V, page 289: "I have also some reasons for believing that 

 the quality of the fruit of the peach tree is, in some cases at least, much 

 deteriorated by the operation of the plum stock. My garden contains two 

 peach trees of the same variety, the Acton Scott, one growing upon its 

 native stock and the other upon a plum stock, the soil being very similar, 

 and the aspect the same. That growing upon the plum stock affords fruit 

 of a larger size, and its color, where it is exposed to the sun, is much more 

 red; but its pulp is more coarse, and its taste and flavor so inferior that I 

 should be disposed to deny the identity of the variety if I had not inserted 

 the buds from which both sprang with my own hand." Two trees of the 

 Moorpark apricot upon apricot stocks produced fruit much more succulent 

 and melting than the trees usually grown upon plum stocks. 



H. F. Hillenmeyer of Lexington, Kentucky, states that in his experi- 

 ence the peach on plum stocks becomes unhealthy, and though the crops 

 were full the quality of the fruit was inferior. 



M. T. Masters says: ' "The form, and especially the quality, of fruit is 

 more or less affected by the stock upon which it is grown. The Stan wick 

 nectarine, so apt to crack and not to ripen when worked in the ordi- 

 nary way, is said to be cured of these propensities by being first budded 

 close to the ground, on the very strong-growing Magnum Bonum plum, 

 worked on a Brussels stock, and by then budding the nectarine on the 

 Magnum Bonum about a foot from the ground." 



A. J. Downing, in his " Fruits and Fruit Trees of America " (1869), page 

 29, says: " The Green Gage, a plum of great delicacy of flavor, varies con- 

 siderably upon different stocks." 



A correspondent of Coleman's Rural World, says: 2 " I once grafted an 

 English wild cherry on a wild cherry stock. When it came into bearing 

 it bore cherries about two-thirds the size of the English cherry, the color 



i Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th edition, Vol. XII, 1881, page 213. 

 2 Quoted in Horticulturist, 1873, p. 87. 



