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can inform ns that Swan's Orange would not be similarly 

 improved by the same means, or that other varieties would 

 not be improved by double working on the Seckel, or some 

 other variety which may yet be found to grow well and unite 

 kindly on the apple ? 



Had experiments like Mr. Humrickhouse's been instituted 

 fifty years ago, to ascertain whether the pear would succeed 

 on the quince, and conducted with twenty varieties first at 

 hand, what proportion would have grown but indifferently, if 

 at all, and what chance would there have been to have got 

 even one in that number to grow freely on the quince 7 It is cer- 

 tain that many of the varieties which grow most freely on the 

 quince have been originated since that period, and present a 

 new creation in relation to this subject. 



We had been grafting the Pound, Williams's Bon Chretien, 

 and two other varieties, the names of which were lost, on 

 apple roots, two years before Mr. Humrickhouse's article ap- 

 peared, and with similar success to his, except that, in one of 

 the nameless sorts, we found a much more certain grower than 

 Williams's Bon Chretien. Our subsequent trials with this 

 sort have proved that it grows nearly as well on the apple 

 root as the apple itself. Last spring, we grafted some eighty 

 varieties on the apple above ground. Of these, as we expect- 

 ed, many failed, or made but a poor growth ; but a few seemed 

 to grow as well as if on the pear stock. Edwards's Henrietta 

 succeeded best ; a seedling, set by mistake, grew nearly as 

 well ; Aston Town, Althorpe Crassane, Prince's St. Germain, 

 Fondante d'Automne, Cross, Dunmore, St. Andre, and Am- 

 brosia, I noted as growing freely. Edwards's Elizabeth, Ana- 

 nas d'Ete, Van Mons Leon le Clerc, and some others, made 

 a tolerable growth. It may be proper to state, that the scions 

 were not all in the best order, and many, which barely grew, 

 may make a much better growth next year ; and some allow- 

 ance might justly be made for working above ground; a goodly 

 number of scions of the Beurre Diel in good order in this man- 

 ner proved almost an entire failure, while Mr. H. had tolera- 

 b e success with this variety on the root. 



Mr. Humrickhouse suggests the use of a long scion with a 

 view to establishing the tree on its own roots, but, if we mis- 

 take not, we need more extended experiments of precisely the 



