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well double vorhed, that is, budded or grafted upon a variety worked 

 already upon tlie quince and succeeding upon it. The French call 

 it intermediary grafting. 



In planting orchards, the same care and the same diggin"' is re- 

 quired for a standard as for a quince stock, but how different the 

 result? Ask Mr. Hovet, and others around Boston, from which 

 they derive their largest profits. They all agree that the quince 

 has paid the soil, the expense, tree and all, long before the pear 

 stock has shown any sign of bearing. 



''Will quince roots do for orchards? " 



For orchards, as we find them on most of our farms, a promenade 

 ground for cattle, badly cultivated and shallow soil, stagnant water, 

 injudicious selection of varieties, and more injudicious pruning, no, 

 sir ! No fruit tree of a refined class, no tree of any value, will do 

 in such conditions. 



Let us look at some fine nurseries, or orchards (schools), where 

 specimen trees are cultivated with care, and in proper soil and locali- 

 ties, and facts, those stubborn things, will soon bring conviction in 

 the place of doubts. 



Messrs. Elwanger & Barry, and others, in Rochester ; Mr. 

 Wilder and Mr. Hovey, near Boston ; CiiAS. Downing, in New- 

 burg ; Dr. Grant, near Peekskill ; Mr. Reid, Elizabethtown, N. J., 

 and many others, cultivate the pear on the quince stock with the 

 best results. 



When one expects to reap the fruit of industry, he needs to give 

 the proper attention to it; if he expects a fruit tree to yield crops 

 of the most refined fruit, and to grow as a maple or a cedar in the 

 woods, he is badly mistaken. 



Let the quince stock be abused, we shall do as the philosopher 

 of Greece ; when Pythagoras denied motion, Zeno went walking. 

 Let the quince be slandered, it will remain one of our best friends. 

 Our profits in fruit raising are mostly derived from quince stock. — 

 The best fruits of our splendid exhibitions are from the quince stock. 



Let gentlemen have their own way in stating contradictory ex- 

 periments, based upon improper or bad management, drawing from 

 these, unsatisfactory conclusions. 'On we shall go,' and by a judi- 

 cious selection of varieties, and proper cultivation, we shall fill our 

 shelves, and walk among our well-shaped, healthy pyramids with a 

 blessing for the unknown genius who first tried the quince as a 



