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Third — It is not so rampant as the Virginia, and if the scions are 

 neglected for a few days it is not so likely to smother them by 

 suckers. 



An ideal tree would be to take a Hibernal well on to its fruit- 

 ing period, and, go out on the limbs and put scions all over it 

 using perhaps one to two hundred scions ; but this would be too 

 long and tedious a job, and not practicable except on a small scale. 

 I would not advise any considerable amount of grafting where 

 limbs larger than an inch in diameter had to be grafted, and prefer 

 to take them not much larger than a good-sized penholder, and 

 either use a whip or side graft. I frequently put in a side graft on 

 the trunk of the tree to balance it up. 



Now, who should graft, and what kinds? Only those should 

 graft who are interested so they will follow it up for the next three 

 months and see that the scions are not being starved to death 

 by the side shoots or suckers starting out and monopolizing all 

 the sap. 



As to kinds: Take desirable kinds that can be classed as half 

 or second and third hardy, and I am sure you will not be disap- 

 pointed. In enumerating part of the kinds I have growing. I 

 would say that they all passed through the hard winter of 1898-9, 

 and with comparatively little damage, though up to that time 

 they had not fruited to any extent, the Longfield being the only 

 one that had fruited, except an occasional apple. Had they been 

 older and borne a heavy crop in 1898, I should probably be sing- 

 ing quite a different tune, yet I feel that quite a goodly per cent 

 would have survived and rendered a good account. I mention a 

 few varieties I am trying, but the names of many I cannot recall, 

 except to take a stroll through the orchard to refresh the mem- 

 ory, and I am too far away from home at the time of writing to 

 do that. 



I wish to say that I have as trying a location as can well be 

 found, and in case of failure or partial failure it should not dis- 

 courage others. I have a clay top soil of from one to four feet, 

 and have sand and gravel underneath. Some of my trees are set 

 down in the pure sand, making it extremely trying during such a 

 season as the past. Among those I have are the Wealthy, Long- 

 field, Tallman Sweet, Grimes' Golden, Jonathan, Brett No. 1, 

 Catherine, Northwestern Greening, Gilbert, Allen's Choice, New- 

 ell's Winter, Plumb's Cider, Malinda, Baldwin, Rhode Island 

 Greening, Fameuse, Ben Davis, Mcintosh Red, Jacobs Sweet, etc. 

 While the action of one or two trees is not sufficient to form judg- 

 ment, I would say that the tree that seemed to suffer the most 



