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several degrees further towards the northern pole. Chas. Downing 

 says : Apricot budded on peach are very inferior — short lived, more 

 liable to disaster — and the fruit of second rate flavor. Budded on the 

 plum the apricot may be considered a hardy tree, he says, and well 

 adapted to strong soil, in which it always holds its fruit better than in 

 light, sandy soil. What a field for the Eussian apricot is here pre- 

 sented. 



But we will not pursue the subject further, lest we bethought dis- 

 l^osed towards enthusiasm. Yet we dare predict the day will come 

 when the importation and use of foreign plum stocks not only will have 

 ceased, but the use of all other plum stocks, and even the peach stock. 



Peaches and apricots we are unable to report upon, the buds set 

 the past season on Marianna stocks, somewhat to our surprise, not as 

 yet having fruited. 



^Y. p. STARK, 



Louisiana, Mo. 



SKETCH OF THE ORIGIX OF "WELLS SEEDLING" GRAPE. 



REPORT OF C. I. ROBARDS OF BUTLER. 



While in the city of Rich Hill, in the county of Bates, in the latter 

 part of the summer of 1886, my attention was directed to some large, 

 showy, white grapes growing on the premises of a gentleman in that 

 city. 



The fruit attracted my attention, not only on account of its size, 

 but because of its peculiar color, which while it would be called white 

 had, on the sun side of well ripened specimens, a shade that may be 

 described as bronze. My interest was still further increased when I 

 learned, on enquiry, that the grape was a seedling not yet made known 

 to the public. 



