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Strawberries. — Triomplie de Gand, Bartlett, Wilson's Seedling 

 (acid,) Hooker's Seedling (sweet,) Jenny Lind. 



Blackberries. — New Rochelle (or Lawton,) Dorchester, New- 

 man's Thornless. 



Subjects for discussion. — The subjects of "Corn Fodder" and 

 " Preservation of the Potato " were selected for the next meeting. 

 Adjourned. 



October 21, 1862. 

 Mr. Adrian Bergen, of Long Island, in the chair. 



FRUIT AFFECTED BY THE STOCK. 



Mr. Carpenter. — It has been asserted by men of science that 

 the stock has no effect upon the fruit. Let the stock be of the 

 apple kind, and let apples be grafted upon it, and I believe that 

 it is pretty well settled that the stock will not materially affect 

 the result. Yet here are two specimens taken from two trees in 

 a farm in Connecticut, both grafted some fifteen years ago at the 

 same time with scions taken from the same tree. One was grafted 

 upon a Fall Pippin and the other upon a very inferior apple, not 

 a crab apple but a remarkably small apple. The former is twice 

 the diameter of the other, and appears like a better apple. They 

 are fair specimens of the trees from which the}^ Avere taken. But 

 although the evidence seems to be very strong, I doubt the whole 

 thing yet. I have grafted the Maiden's Blush upon the Siberian 

 Crab, and I never saw finer specimens than that bore. 



[The apples having been cut and tasted were pronounced to be 

 so decidedly different in quality as to be convincing evidence of a 

 mistake in grafting.] 



Prof. Nash. — Anybody Avould argue, a priori, that the stock 

 would affect the fruit, in size or quality, or both. I have always 

 been exceedingly inclined to believe that such is the fact. It 

 would seem impossible that a graft put upon a tree of defective 

 organization should mature a perfect fruit ; and I believe if a 

 series of experiments were to be made, this would be found to be 

 the fact. And this is perfectly consistent with Mr. Carpenter's 

 experiment with the crab apple, because the elaboration of the 

 sap takes place not in the stock but in the graft, and the sap of 

 the crab apple tree may be sufficient to develope all the perfec- 

 tion of the Maiden's Blush. 



