Jnfluence of the Stock on the SctoH, and yice rersa. 355 



medium to large size: good bearers and good keepers; color dark 

 scarlet. Cranberries of each variety vary in size, shape and color. 



The most successful culture of the cranberry is on muck or peat 

 covered with pure sand two or three inches, or more, if necessary, to 

 level the ground, with a perfect underdrain to bring the water within 

 ten or twelve inches of the surface. Another very important matter 

 is to have an overflow under control, so as to let on or off in a very 

 few hours. In case of drought or worms, it can be flowed at once, 

 while the vines are growing in flower or fruit ; twenty-four hours flow Bugle cranberry. 

 will not hurt them. 



Milford^ Conn. F. Trowbridge. 



Influence of the Stock on the Scion, and vice versa. 



Kssni] hij Jofsiah Uoopes, for the Aiuericini foinoloyleti.l Society. 



BOTH theory and practice teach us that the relationship existing between the 

 root and the top of a tree cannot be impaired to any great extent, by any arti- 

 ficial intervention of man. The very moment that an inserted bud or graft 

 commences to granulate and then unite, that moment the two parts of the embryo 

 tree struggle, as it were, for the mastery. That is, certain idiosyncrasies inherent 

 either in the branches of the one, or the roots of the other, will form a leading 

 feature in the mature plant. Abundant proof of this is afforded by examining the 

 roots of nursery-grown apple trees, whether budded or grafted. Take for instance 

 some well-known variety, as the Belhfleur, and the roots will be found uniformly 

 long, slender, and very fibrous ; other kinds will prove exactly thr> opposite. If we 

 place a graft of some well marked variety upon any ordinary stock, say five or six 

 feet high, in a few years certain peculiarities of the bark will be found extending 

 down from the branches to the body of the tree ; as is instanced in the Neivtown 

 Pippin Apple, and Van Mans Leon le Clerc Pear. Another curious feature respect- 

 ing the influence of the scion upon the stock, is noticeable in some of the so-called 

 "sports," or variegated leaved plants. 



During the past season, a Mountain Ash, upon which was budded a variety with 

 variegated leaves, commenced to push forth young shoots from the main body of the 

 tree, below the point where the bud was inserted. In every case these had variegated 

 leaves. Now, in view of the fact that these adventitious buds were there in advance 

 of the original variegated bud, the presumption is, that they were created green, and 

 their normal condition yielding to the controlling influence of the new branches, 

 caused the change to occur by the flow of sap from above. 



A still more remarkable case than the one above cited, was related some time 

 since by a correspondent of the London Garden. He states that he procured scions of 

 a diseased Horse Chestnut with yellow leaves, and worked them upon strong, healthy 

 young trees. Some time thereafter, upon examining the stocks where the scions had 

 failed, young shoots were found down the body, bearing the identical yellow-hued 

 foliage ; and yet, where the buds originally inserted had " taken," they produced 

 perfectly healthy green leaves. 



