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exception, and that was upon a Pound 

 Sweet tree the others being upon Rus- 

 sets. This Pound Sweet graft bore very 

 large, handsome and excellent Sops-of- 

 Wines, but the rest were worthless. 



Some thirteen years ago, I was speak- 

 ing of this to the late Albert Noyes, of 

 Bangor, Maine, who said he had had 

 many similar experiences, especially in 

 getting extra sized fruit for exhibition 

 by grafting upon Alexander, all varie- 

 ties seeming to grow larger and hand- 

 somer when so worked. But this size 

 was got at the expense of quality. 



A more curious matter still is, that 

 by grafting " in and in " upon the same 

 tree the change produced can be much 

 intensified. By ''in and in " grafting, 

 I mean grafting a scion upon the limb 

 of a tree, then next year taking a scion 

 from the graft and grafting it into the 

 same tree ; next year take a scion from 

 the second graft and insert it in the 

 same tree. This may be repeated 

 again and again, the result being that 

 you will have all grades between the 

 original fruit of the graft and the origi- 

 nal fruit of the stock. To be quite 

 successful there must be difference 

 enough between the stock and first scion 

 to start a change. But by " in-and-in " 

 grafting the effect is often so marked 

 from one year's graft to the next, and 

 so on, as to make a positive demonstra- 

 tion of the actuality of this which I call 

 " graft crossing." 



R. Dibble, of Brantford, Conn., was 

 the man who, in June, 1873, first called 

 my attention to this method of inten- 

 sification of the graft cross by grafting 

 in and in. He wrote : " About forty 

 years ago, my father had a large and 

 thrifty apple tree that bore exceedingly 

 sour fruit. I helped him graft a part 

 of it from a very sweet apple standing 

 near. The second year we grafted 

 another part from the scions set the 

 previous year. The third year we 

 grafted the rest of the tree from the 



second setting. These grafts produced 

 three different kinds of fruit, all differ- 

 ing from each of the original stocks. 

 The first strongly resembled the sweet 

 apple, but were only moderately sweet. 

 The second were slightly striped, like 

 the sour apple, and neither sweet nor 

 sour, while the third were clearly 

 striped, and a moderately sour apple." 

 Mr. Dibble, adds, " No man can graft 

 a Rhode Island Greening on a sweet 

 apple stock and another from the same 

 on a sour stock, and have the same 

 fruit in appearence and taste as the 

 original from each tree. To say the 

 least, I have never been able to do it. 

 I have a number of them, but no two 

 are alike." — T. H. Hoskins, in Vicks's 

 Magazine. 



THE EEIE BLACKBERRY. 



In the multiplication of varieties, the 

 blackberry has not kept pace with the 

 raspberry and strawberry ; yet the last 

 five or six years have witnessed the 

 addition of some very valuable new 

 sorts to a list which was, and is still, by 

 no means very large. Among these 

 kinds two deserve special mention : the 

 Early Harvest, particularly for its ex- 

 treme earliness, which gives it sole con- 

 trol of the markets far in advance of 

 all other sorts, and Wilson Junior for 

 its size and productiveness. Inter- 

 mediate between these two, in regard 

 to its season of ripening, stands the 

 " Erie," named thus by Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder in consideration of its place 

 of origination, which is near Lake Erie, 

 in northern Ohio. 



We have good reason to believe that 

 the Erie is the "coming blackberry," 

 and will give to the fruit grower what 

 has been looked for so long in vain— a 

 variety with the iron-clad cane of the 

 Snyder and the large fruit of the Law- 

 ton or Kittatinny. At Monmouth it 

 has passed the last two winters without 

 protection entirely unharmed, while all 



