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For the Cherry: That we now have varieties of the cherry from east 

 Europe hardy enough for the north is beyond all doubt or dispute, but 

 worked on the commercial stocks they are liable to be lost by root killing. 

 That it will prove best to grow them from root cuttings does not admit 

 of a doubt, but at present trees on their own roots are scarce, and I believe 

 we can profitably use two of our native species for root grafting and bud- 

 ding. The Wild Red Cherry {Primus Pennsylvanica) has proven an excel- 

 lent stock for budding. Trees now several years old have not outgrown 

 the stock and the union seems perfect. The Dwarf Mountain Cherry 

 (Primus pumilla), as seen in its native haunts, does not appear to be well 

 adapted for use as a stock. But we And the seedlings to be upright in 

 habit and to bud as well as the Mahaleb. The plants can be grown thickly 

 in nursery and set out the succeeding spring in rows for budding, precisely 

 as practiced with the Mahaleb. At present I believe this will prove the 

 favorite stock for the whole north and extreme northwest for the dwarf 

 varieties of the Vladimir race which unite perfectly with its wood. 



The conclusions so hastily and briefly outlined are the results of twenty- 

 five years of experience and observation on both continents. 



J. S. Harris : Now there are a great many things in that paper 

 of Mr. Budd's that make me feel rather glad that he has written 

 it. I had intended to write a paper on those points for this 

 meeting, but have not had time to do it. The observations I 

 have made in several places convince me that there are some 

 varieties of apples that are being propagated by suckers and 

 sprouts that are doing well, but that are a failure as grafted 

 trees, and I do not know but what that gentleman is right when 

 he says we would have been better off if grafting had never 

 been discovered. There is a variety of apples that is propa- 

 gated over in "Wisconsin I know of, an orchard of perhaps one 

 hundred trees, and there is not a grafted tree in the whole or- 

 chard. The oldest is forty-five years old, and the youngest six- 

 teen or eighteen, and the man told us he had not lost a tree. 

 The original tree looks as though it was still good for twenty 

 years to come. 



Pres. Elliot: I am well aware that there are several 

 points in Prof. Budd's paper that we would like to discuss and 

 bring out, but we are going to print that, and we can think it 

 over, and when we come here next winter we can discuss it. 

 We will try then, perhaps, to have something in that line. 



