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resiilts correctly noted. To make a test of this kind, procure during 

 early spring a portion of seedling Avood produced the previous year and 

 graft it on an outer and rather pendulous growth of an established tree. 

 The scion should contain six or eight leaf buds, and the tongue graft 

 should be employed. In this position on the tree the scion, if of fruitful 

 character, will blossom two or three years after the time of grafting. 

 The longer the scion and the more pendulous its stock the sooner the 

 stage of fructification will be reached. When the test proves that a 

 variety is capable of producing only fruit of inferior quality, it may 

 be destroyed, but those yielding apples of good quality should be retained 

 and further experimented with in relation to their adaptability to our 

 many soil and climatic conditions. 



When the preliminary, but obviously most essential, test reveals 

 that the fruiting characteristics of a new variety are sufficiently 

 encouraging to warrant the further experiments already mentioned, tests 



Plate 144. 

 Fig 1. Apple produced on a Statesman sport. 

 Fig. 2. Apple from the original Statesman wood of the same tree. 



should be made to try its adaptability to the conditions obtaining in 

 the various fruit-groAving districts of the State. When success attends 

 the latter tests, specimens of the fruit, accompanied by a report con- 

 taining all the particulars relating to its production, should be for- 

 warded to the Commonwealth Pomological Committee for the considera- 

 tion of its nomenclators. Should they consider the variety of sufficient 

 merit to bestow on it a name, this would subsequently appear alpha- 

 betically listed with the others in the catalogues of enterprising nursery- 

 men. As the variety comes into general cultivation, its habit of growth, 

 pruning requirements, and other particulars should be carefully noted, 

 so that its characteristics in every respect might be, at least, as well 

 understood as those of others at present grown. 



Vaeieties Evolved through Sports. 

 The wood of varieties evolved through sports usually retains the 

 characteristics of the parent tree, the deviations from the original being 



