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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



' ' L. Woolverton. — 1 50 cases apples, Green- 

 ing" and Russets XX 3/6, 4/— ; Cranberry 

 Pippins, good XXX 5/6, 6/-, XX 4/", 5/- 



"A. Block. — Californian Pears, all in per- 

 fect condition ; varieties principally Winter 

 Nelis and Glout Morceau. These made 7/6 

 to 8/6." 



THE TALLMAN SWEET AS A STOCK FOR 

 GRAFTING. 



Sir, — Is Tallman Sweet the best stock to top 

 graft on, and does top grafting any species shorten 

 the time at which the tree comes into bearing ? 



When you get Tallman Sweet trees from nursery- 

 men for spring planting can you graft immediately 

 they are planted or must you let them grow for a 

 year? 



Wbuld two year old seedlings from Tallman 

 Sweet seed do as well as purchasmg from nursery- 

 men ? 



Is there any data or do you know at what age 

 would the foUowmg kinds come into bearing if top 

 grafted on young Tallman Sweet trees, viz., Spy, 

 Baldwin, King, McIntOoh, Gravenstein, Astrachan 

 and Blenheim, 



Is there any of the above trees that should not 

 be grafted as above ? An answer would oblige. 



Toronto. C. L. 



The influence of the stock upon the cion 

 has been often observed, especially is it 

 noticeable where the free g-rowing pear cion 

 is g'rafted upon the quince ; for the growth 

 of the pear wood is thereby checked, and 

 the strength of the tree is diverted into the 

 formation of fruit buds, and into the pro- 

 duction of larg-e sized fruit. 



Mr, Geo. T, Powell, of New York State, 

 reports that he has some King apple trees 

 top grafted upon Northern Spy. The former 

 has coarse grained wood and is a rapid 

 grower, while the wood of the latter is very 

 close g-rained and very solid. He found the 

 King in this case more productive than when 



grafted on other wood. Mr. G. C. Caston, 

 of Craighurst, Ont., reports having- top 

 grafted Spy cions on Tallman Sweet trees ; 

 and that the Spy, usually so long- coming 

 into bearing, beg-an to be productive sooner 

 than when grafted on ordinary seedling 

 stock. Nurserymen seldom take this sub- 

 ject into consideration in propagating trees, 

 because it would be inconvenient in a 

 large way. It seems however reasonable to 

 suppose that if they could secure seeds from 

 the pumice of Tallman Sweet in sufficient 

 quantity to use in propagation of young stock 

 it might give excellent results. Of course 

 any one, who pleases, can grow young trees 

 by sowing seed of Tallman Sweet apples, 

 and perhaps a large number of the seedlings 

 would have the wood characteristics of the 

 plant, but on this one cannot fully depend. 



If you buy Tallman Sweet trees for top 

 working, it is better to let them grow a year 

 or two, and get well established before top 

 working them. 



We cannot say just how soon such trees 

 would begin bearing, so much depends upon 

 tillage, kind ot soil, and various other con- 

 ditions ; we have an orchard of Spys on 

 ordinary stock, and it was twenty years be- 

 fore we had paying crops from it. Also we 

 have an orchard of King apple trees on 

 ordinary stock which are now about forty 

 years planted, and have grown to a height 

 of about thirty feet, and they do not give a 

 full crop of apples more than once in four 

 years. Of course the apples are very large, 

 and high priced, but this scarcely makes up 

 for their slim crops. 



