The Propagation of Plums 243 



Julien seedlings cost more than double the price of 

 Myrobalans, and they are not as thrifty the first year 

 they are transplanted. They also are attacked by a 

 fungus which causes them to lose their leaves early in 

 the summer, thus preventing the budding of the stocks 

 altogether, or a partial failure in the buds when this 

 leaf fungus is not corrected. Of course, when taken 

 in time we can in a large measure prevent this falling 

 of the leaves by spraying with bordeaux mixture, but 

 taking all things into consideration, it is quite a bit 

 more expensive to raise plums on St. Julien stock, and 

 we find that we cannot get any more for them in the 

 open market, so that we have become discouraged 

 growing stocks on St. Julien root." 



In view of this testimony, it seems unfortunate 

 that propagation on the St. Julien stock is given up. 

 If plum growers would demand trees worked on this 

 stock, and would pay the increased cost, the nursery- 

 men would be ready at once to supply the demand. 

 St. Julien is not recommended outside of New 

 York, nor for other plums than Domesticas and 

 Damsons. 



Myrobalan. Seedling Myrobalan stocks are im- 

 ported in large quantities from France. The propor- 

 tion of these importations varies from year to year, 

 being influenced by the price of the stocks in France, 

 by the tariff, and by the domestic supply of Marianna 

 and peach stocks. This is the stock most commonly 

 employed in the northern states, and it is also freely 

 used by many southern nurserymen. Its advantages 

 are cheapness, ease of working, readiness with which 

 it unites with all scions, freedom from sprouting, and 

 ready, clean growth in the nursery. In the old books 

 on horticulture, the Myrobalan is usually mentioned as 

 a dwarfing stock for the plum; but in this country, 

 with our climate, soils and pruning, it produces a 



