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ably dwarf the trees worked on it; and would probably 

 be subject to the same difficulty of sprouting mentioned 

 in connection with the Chicasaws proper. 



Wayland seedlings. Mr. J. W. Kerr has experi- 

 mented somewhat extensively with seedlings of the 

 Wayland group, and finds them to have several mate- 

 rial good points as stocks. The stocks never sucker. 

 They unite most satisfactorily with all varieties of the 

 \Yildgoose, Wayland and Chicasaw groups; and also 

 with those of the Miner and Americana groups. Mr. 

 Kerr thinks this is "the best general stock" that he has 

 ever tried. The serious difficulty is in getting the 

 stocks. Wayland, Golden Beauty and all their rela- 

 tives refuse absolutely to grow from cuttings, they do 

 not sucker, and the seeds are hard to get. They are 

 not in the market, and every man has to depend on 

 what he can gather in his orchard. This makes them 

 out of the question as a commercial stock, but they are 

 worth recommending to plum amateurs. 



Pacific plum. The Pacific plum, Prunus sub- 

 cordata, has been tested as a stock in California, but 

 has not been found to show important good qualities. 

 It dwarfs the scion and is inclined to sucker. 



Sand cherry. Many experiments have been made 

 with the western sand cherry, Prunus pumila besscyi, 

 especially in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota. 

 Some fair degree of success is reported by Professors 

 Budd, Hansen and Craig, by Mr. J. S. Harris, and 

 others. Budd found that all classes of plums, includ- 

 ing the Domesticas and Japanese, united with this 

 stock. The best success was secured when the stocks 

 were budded, though a fair proportion of the scions 

 grew when whip-grafted or side-grafted. (See Iowa 

 Hort. Soc. Trans. 28:404. 1893.) This stock dwarfs 

 the plum, more or less, and is sometimes inclined to 



