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vidual will produce trees which at one and two years of age 

 are strikingly better than their fellows; these trees hav-' 

 been selected in the first instance because of their yielding 

 power. Now, we notice this variation in ability to produce 

 a one or two year old tree. Of course, with the present 

 standard of requirements, everyone wanting the larger tree, 

 it. will become absolutely necessary, if we wish to meet the 

 same, to select the best-growing trees for our work. It is 

 perhaps well to say here that anj- tree taken from a bearing 

 tree will not make as satisfactory growth in the first two 

 J' ears as a bud taken from nursery stock would; in other 

 words, if we should pass these trees through the nursery 

 row for a couple of years and reproduce from them we could 

 give a much more satisfactory appearing tree so far as thvi 

 purchaser is concerned, whether it will be any better or not 

 is a question which must be settled by direct experiment. 



But to return to our individual rows we find that tak- 

 ing the case of the Auchter Baldwin, which is one of the 

 best bearing trees known to Mr. Taylor and Prof. Hedrick 

 and occurring on the Auchter orchard at South Greece, N. 

 Y., which has been leased by the Geneva Experiment Station 

 for ten years, that the trees propagated from this individual 

 are uniformly poorer growers than those propagated from 

 several other individuals grown alongside. This is not only 

 true in Geneseo, but it is true in the nursery of Mr. McKay 

 at Geneva. Why should this be? The individual wanting 

 trees and looking at this row would never take them from 

 that one ; they would much prefer the row alongside, known 

 ?s 4.05. In the case of the R. I. Greening we find similiar. 

 results; stocks grown from the two trees 6.19 and 8.13 will 

 produce . a larger number of relatively first class trees at one 

 and two years old than 5.03 which is grown between them. So 

 far as an experiment this is a very good check, 5.03 pro- 

 duces a uniformly large number of trees about 3 feet when 

 one year old. which are sprawly in growth at two years old 

 and not first class in appearance; in other words, there 

 would be difficulty in selling these trees. No one would 



