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that grow well upon the quince, and in the fol- 

 lowing season re-grafting on these the kinds that 

 do not flourish when placed directly upon this 

 stock. This process of double grafting may be 

 advantageously employed also in bringing pears 

 earlier into fruit. In the spring of 1840, we in- 

 serted a graft of the " Cabot " into a dwarf stock, 

 which was but one inch through at the but ; and, 

 in the fall of 1841, it bore from twelve to fifteen 

 pears. 



The effect of double grafting, says Lindley, 

 " is similar to ringing the branches : the obstruction 

 that the sap meets with, in passing through the 

 two places of union, would be tantamount to the 

 limited supply of sap permitted to ascend where 

 a portion of the bark is removed." The quince 

 stock brings the pear into early fruiting, and some 

 varieties are larger upon this stock ; still, where 

 a permanent orchard is wanted, we should recom- 

 mend the natural, or wilding pear. Pears work- 

 ed upon the white thorn, are said to do better 

 where the soil is a strong clay, than upon the 

 quince. Pears have been grown in Europe upon 

 the mountain ash. We budded twelve small trees 

 of this sort with the Bartlett and Seckel, in the 

 fall of 1840. A shoot of the ash was permitted 

 to grow in connection with the pear, for the first 

 season. In the spring of the following year, the 

 first shoot (the ash) was then cut off close 1 to the 

 main stem. These trees have made quite as good 

 a growth as upon pear stocks. 



Hornsby says, " that where the apple and pear 

 would not previously fruit, the soil poor and shal- 

 low upon rock, its effect is to retard the blossom, 

 and give vigor to the constitution. Flesh and fia- 



