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of the following varieties, grafting them onto the Gould crab April 

 loth, 1906 : Roxbury Russet, twenty grafts ; Davenport Russet, 

 thirty-four grafts ; a seedling, Bottle Greening, thirty-four grafts, 

 and North Star, nine grafts. The tree that I cut the Bottle Green- 

 ing scions from originated in Vermont fifty-one years ago. The 

 largest apple tree I ever have seen of it bore fourteen barrels of 

 apples in 1905. April 13th I grafted forty-one grafts of Arkansas 

 Black and fifty-six grafts of the apple called Wilfert, by some 

 thought to be Plumb Cider, also the same day grafted seventeen of 

 the Bottle Greening on a Yellow Siberian. April i6th I set seven- 

 teen grafts of a seedling of Header's Red Winter on Duchess. 



I think the Duchess shows up well to impart hardiness to the 

 Malinda grafts. They were set five years ago and are now about 

 seven feet long and full of fruit buds for another year. I think 

 grafting on the top limbs of the Duchess five years ago will prove 

 a profitable investment. I think the cash value of the fifty trees so 

 topworked at least $20.00 each and that they will pay interest on as 

 much more than that. To prove the greater vitality of the Duchess 

 as a stock to top-work I have had a tree bear fifteen bushels of 

 apples, ripen up its fruit buds well that same year and bear the 

 next year from twelve to fifteen bushels. I found an excellent apple 

 in Buckland, Mass., which I considered nearly the quality of our 

 Wealthy. I grafted this variety, one pound of grafts, on the 17th 

 of April on the Duchess and on several trees younger than my 

 Duchess, which were top-worked with Malinda. 



On the 2 1 St of April I set on the Alaska crab, for experiment 

 work, a few Perry Russet, some Baldwin, a few Blue Pearmain. 

 On the 2nd day of May on two Gould crab trees I grafted a seed- 

 ling from Reedsboro, Vermont, that was named the Gem. The 

 apple ripens in August. The owner said it was their finest early 

 fruit. Have lately sent an order for the Gilflower, Rollinsland 

 Greening and the Pound Sweet varieties. I have in bearing top- 

 worked two trees of the Patten's Greening that have borne four 

 bushels each on young trees that I think were seedlings from the 

 Gould crab, but am not sure. 



I have grown two hundred seedlings from seed of the Gould crab 

 the past season, and grafted six hundred scions on crab roots. 

 I am not a nurseryman, but experimenting with this stock. When I 

 can grow the tenderest apple I know of that will not grow under 

 same conditions as other orchard trees grow, I think it is a reason 

 able conclusion that I can grow most if not all the commercial kinds 

 of apples. 



