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essential to plant deeply." We, on the 

 other hand, think there is quite as great 

 need of caution not to plant too deeply, 

 especially in heavy soil. What is the 

 experience of other vineyardists in 

 Canada 1 



Wanted. — January, February and May 

 numbers of the Canadian Horticulturist 

 for 1886. Nine numbers of the year 

 1885 will be given in exchange for these 

 three ; or three numbers of 1 885 for 

 any one of them. Each number for 

 1885 contains a colored plate. 



A valuable paper has come to hand from 

 Mr. P. E. Bucke, of Ottawa, on " Suit- 

 able Trees for the Lawn," which will 

 appear in the January number. 



Able Contributors. — Among other gentle- 

 men, who will contribute to these pages 

 during the year 1887, we have pleasure 

 in mentioning the names of the follow- 

 ing, viz. :— D. W. Beadle, W. E. Wel- 

 lington, A. M. Smith, W. W. Hilborn, 

 John Little, Hermann Simmers, ?. E. 

 Bucke, A. A. Wright and F. Mitchell. 

 With such a staff of able contributors 

 an era of unprecedented prosperity is 

 before this journal, and of enlarged use- 

 fulness for the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion of Ontario. 



^Vit&iioxi ^ratoer. 



This department is intended as an open one to every 

 reader of the ^^Horticulturist" to send in either 

 questions or answers. Often a reader will be able to 

 answer a question which has been left unanswered, 

 or only partially answered by us. For convenience 

 •of reference the questions will henceforth be num- 

 bered, and any one replying or referring to any 

 question will please mention the number of it. 



9. The Influence of Stock on Graft. — With 

 us Grimes' Golden is below medium 

 size. At our County Exhibition in 

 October among the dozens of Grimes' 

 Golden shown, was one dozen twice as 



large as some of the others. I asked 

 the exhibitor, " How do you grow them 

 so large V " By top grafting on the 

 Holley," was the reply. The Holley is 

 a Nova Scotia seedling, a very large 

 apple. What do you think of this ? 

 C. E. Brown, Yarmouth, N. S. 



Neither the scientific study of the 

 growth of the tree, nor the experience 

 of our most reliable pomologists, favors 

 the idea that the stock has any power 

 to change the identity of the fruit grown 

 upon the scion. It may have some in- 

 fluence upon habits of growth in certain 

 ways. Thus grafting a standard pear 

 upon the slow growing quince dwarfs its 

 growth, and by hindering the free re- 

 turn of the sap causes it to be the more 

 directed to the development of the 

 fruit ; so that in certain cases, as with 

 the Duchess, the fruit is larger and 

 finer thus dwarfed. A tender tree 

 may also be made hardy by grafting it 

 upon a hardy stock ; thus the peach 

 will sometimes succeed upon the plum 

 stock where it would otherwise fail. 

 But it is not at all probable that the 

 Grimes Golden would grow larger upon 

 the Holley stock, simply because the 

 Holley stock bore a large-sized fruit. 

 See, however, article by Dr. Hoskins, 

 p. 233. 



Mr. A. M. Smith says : " The influ- 

 ence of stock on scion is an old ques- 

 tion, and one on which there is a dif- 

 ference of opiniou. I think the quality 

 of the fruit depends more on the vigor 

 of the stock and the cultivation it re- 

 ceives and the soil than it does on any 

 special variety on which it may be 

 grafted." See Report N. S. A., p. 34. 



