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Fig. 15.— (P. 51.) 



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the fruit green and immature; and the 

 leaves in other kinds will retain their 

 verdure long after the fruit has perished. 

 The plants whose buds in the annual 

 wood are full and prominent are usually 

 more productive than thoKe wliose buds 

 are small and shrunk in the bark ; but 

 their future produce will depend much 

 on the power the blossoms possess of 

 bearing the cold, and this power varies 

 in the varieties, and can only be known 

 from experience. Those which pro- 

 duce their leaves and blossoms rather 

 early in the spring are generally to be 

 preferred, for, though they are more 

 exposed to injury from frost, they less fre- 

 quently suffer from the attacks of insects 



— the more common cause of allure. 

 The disposition to vegetate early or 

 late in the spring, is, like almost every 

 other quality in the apple tree, trans- 

 ferred in different degrees to its off- 

 spring ; and the planter must therefore 

 seek those qualities in the parent tree 

 which he wishes to find in the future 

 seedling plants. The^^best method I 

 have been able to discover of obtaining 

 such fruits as vegetate very early in the 

 spring, has been by introducing the 

 farina of the Siberian Crab into the blos- 

 som of a rich and early apple, and by 

 transferring, in the same manner, the 

 farina of the apple to the blossom of the 

 Siberian Crab. The leaf and the habit 



