24 THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



different trees may be united at the extremities, " by ap- 

 proach," like Fig. 23, if the parts be neatly fitted, and held 

 firmly by means of splints, until the union is complete. 

 The different modes will be shown by illustrations. 



Grafting into different Species. Beginners who do not 

 possess a correct understanding of the laws of both vege- 

 table and animal physiology are often ambitious to try ex- 

 periments in grafting or budding a given kind of fruit on 

 a tree of some other species. In numerous instances, by 

 not understanding what can be done, and what is imprac- 

 ticable, they have committed ludicrous blunders. As stated 

 under Species, apples may be produced by inserting apple- 

 tree cions, or buds, in a pear-stock. And pears, in the same 

 manner, may be produced on apple-stocks. We have often 

 seen pear-cions inserted in " thorn-apple " stocks ; and have 

 frequently read recommendations, by writers on pomology, 

 as to grafting pears on thorn-stocks. But we have never 

 met with, nor read of, satisfactory success in such experi- 

 ments. Pears and quinces, also, belong to different species 

 of fruit; and yet the product of pear-cions on a quince- 

 stock is a satisfactory success. Apples, pears, and quinces 

 have so little affinity with peaches and plums, that they 

 can not be produced on a peach or plum stock. Nor can 

 peaches or plums be produced on apple-stocks. 



Apple-cions may be set in the maple or willow; but 

 were they to live and grow the branches would never yield 

 fruit. We have frequently seen it stated, in agricultural 

 journals, that apples and pears have been produced satis- 

 factorily on the young stocks of the mountain ash; but 

 we have never met with a person who has seen the fruit. 

 A gentleman near Goshen, N. Y., assured us that he had 

 been successful in grafting the cions of the English walnut 

 on his young sweet -walnut -trees. But walnuts will not 

 grow on the chestnut or butternut trees, nor, vice versa; 



