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closely resembles the fruit that the original 

 purple-leaved cion subsequently bore. In size 

 the fruit is intermediate between that of the 

 purple-leaved cion and that of the Kelsey. 



The descendants of this hybrid stock vary in 

 the second and succeeding generations, just as 

 they might be expected to do had they grown 

 from a hybrid seed produced by pollination; 

 thus affording additional evidence that we have 

 to do with an actual case of sap-hybridism. 



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This record is made at length because of its 

 extreme unusualness. 



Xever in the entire course of my wide experi- 

 ence have I seen another case in which I could 

 trace such definite influence between the grafted 

 cion and its foster parent. And so we may take 

 it as a safe general rule that a cion, however 

 grafted, will retain the characteristics of its 

 parent stock, and that the tree on which it grows 

 will be fundamentally uninfluenced, so far as 

 the character of its fruit is concerned, by 

 the graft. 



It is not at all with the expectation of influ- 

 encing the fruit product of either cion or stock 

 that the familiar process of grafting is resort, 

 to. The chief object of grafting, as practiced 



