PROPAGATION 2? 



which place the supply largely comes. Almost all 

 the quince stocks used by nurserymen in America are 

 imported from France. As in dealing with apple 

 stocks, the importation is made during the winter, the 

 stocks are planted in nursery rows in the early spring, 

 and are usually budded in July or August of the same 

 year. 



A few varieties of pears do not make good unions 

 with the quince. In some cases this antipathy is over- 

 come by the expedient of double- working. The quince 

 root is first budded with some variety which unites 

 \vell with it. After this pear cion has grown one year, 

 the refractory variety is budded upon this pear shoot. 

 The complete tree, when it leaves the nursery, con- 

 sists of three pieces, a quince root below, a pear 

 top above, and a short section of only one or two 

 inches in length of some other variety of pear which 

 simply holds together the two essential parts of the 

 tree. 



This practise of double-working is sometimes under- 

 taken with other kinds of fruit for special purposes. 

 There are no other cases, however, in which it be- 

 comes a generally recognized commercial practise. 



THE PEACH 



The peach is dwarfed by budding it upon almost any 

 kind of a plum root, especially upon the smaller grow- 

 ing species of plums. The stock most used is the 

 ordinary Myrobalan plum. This is simply because 

 the Myrobalan stock is commoner and cheaper. The 

 St. Julien plum probably furnishes a better dwarfing 



