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sound, and he says was cut from a budded tree. He 

 is made to believe, without a particle of evidence 

 except the word of the stranger that budded trees are 

 for that reason always sound, while grafted ones, 

 for the same reason, are always unsound. A sale is 

 made at two or three prices, but the ordinary 

 grafted tree is delivered in every case. I have 

 examined nearly 100 of these trees and have yet to 

 find one not grafted. The wrong is in the deception, 

 and exorbitant price, as the trees are actually better 

 than if a budded tree was really delivered. Any 

 one can determine by cutting one of these trees 

 whether they are budded or grafted. Examine 

 plate No. 10, which gives the form of a splice cr 

 root graft. Cut into the tree just above the roots, 

 where there is usually an unevenness that will 

 indicate the splice, this will be found and the parts 

 can be separated, as the wood in a graft never 

 grows together, but is encased in new wood which 

 forms over it. 



Prof. Budd, in State Register, Feb. 18, 1887, 

 says: "As these budded apple tree chaps are well 

 distributed over the state, the real facts should be 

 kept before the people. Trees budded on any 

 obtainable stock, or seedlings, are not worth plant- 

 ing in any part of Iowa, as not one seedling in 500 

 is as hardy as our common grafted sorts. Hence, 

 if the Duchess of Oldenburg, Wealthy, or Whitney's 

 No. 20, or even the crabs should be budded above 

 the crown on common seedling stocks they will 

 soon go out by root killing. But the wily agent 



