60 PRODUCTION OF NEW VARIETIES. 



In the case of some of our weU-known varieties which have 

 been perpetuated and multiplied by grafting and budding, thefe 

 is more difficulty in securing the desired combuiation of qualities, 

 than in those which have never been grafted, but are gro-wing on 

 their natural stock. Precisely what are the influences of the 

 stock upon the graft, it is not possible to state ; but it is quite 

 possible that they come in to affect the operations of the cross- 

 fertilizer. 



In performing this operation, it should be borne in mind 

 that the constitution of the seed-bearing parent is apt to be 

 transmitted to the progeny. It wiU be necessary, therefore, to 

 remember that unless this parent be healthy, hardy and produc- 

 tive, the seedlings raised from it will be very likely to be deficient 

 in these qualities. On the other hand, it is thought that the 

 form and color and qualities of the fruit will partake largely of 

 the male, that is, the parent from which the pollen was taken. 

 There is constant inquiry for very hardy apple trees, yielding 

 fruit of fine quality ; and indeed this is true of aU the fruits ; 

 and while it may be necessary to sacrifice size of fruit on account 

 of the shortness of the season and quality of soU, yet it may be 

 quite possible to produce an apple tree that shall have the hardi- 

 hood of the Siberian crab, and yet yield a fruit as large and 

 perhaps as good as the famed English golden pippin. We 

 commend this pleasant task of producing new varieties of fruits 

 by cross-fertnization to the attention of our Canadian lovers of 

 good fruit, in the confident expectation that every patient worker 

 in this interesting field will be most abundantly rewarded. 



If the pollen that you have applied to the stigma fertdizes 

 the germs in the seed vessel, the fruit will grow and come to 

 maturity, containing within itself the seeds which have been 

 developed from those germs, and which you are to preserve and 

 plant with jealous care, watching and waiting until they grow 

 up and become trees and yield their fruit, the fruit possessing 

 the qualities you hoped to combine, when you dusted the poUen 

 on the pifitU of the parent fruit. Of course, in the case of apples 



