GENERAL POINTS CONCERNING FRUIT TREE STOCKS 187 



port is somewhat condensed from a recent bulletin as 

 follows : 



One rather unexpected result so far is that in all cases except 

 one (Wolf River) the trees top-grafted on known stocks have 

 made a better average growth than those grafted on seedling roots 

 in the nursery. All top-grafted Grimes trees are also in the lead. 

 Among the various stocks, trees developed on Paragon are distinctly 

 in the lead, with those on Tolman second. With Grimes and 

 Tompkins King, the only varieties of these three that really need 

 top-grafting, the superiority of these two stocks is very marked so 

 far as growth is concerned. In smoothness of unions, Tolman 

 and Champion are probably best, with Paragon next, if the top- 

 grafts with Jonathan be excepted, as with that variety the Paragon 

 stock has tended to outgrow the cions. Incidentally, the reverse is 

 the case with Grimes on Wolf River. 



FIG. 158 NEGRO WOMEN ARE LARGELY EMPLOYED IN SOUTHERN 

 NURSERIES 



Northern Spy stock has averaged third in growth and is now 

 running about equal to Paragon in unions. It also usually makes 

 an excellent trunk and root system, but in at least one respect it is 

 considerably less desirable than either Tolman, or Paragon for 

 stock purposes ; namely, in its unusual tardiness in starting growth 

 in spring. This tends to make the cions more active than the 

 stocks of most varieties, naturally the reverse of the condition 

 desired when grafts are being started. From present results, 

 therefore, either Paragon or Tolman appears to be distinctly pref- 

 erable to any of the others, for Grimes at least Champion third, 

 if Jonathan grafts are omitted. 



Samuel Fraser of Geneseo, N. Y., finds that Twenty-Ounce top- 

 grafted on Baldwin makes 50 to 100 per cent better trees in five to 

 eight years than when worked on Northern Spy. Similarly, Wealthy 

 does poorly on Rhode Island Greening, while the latter does well 

 on Wealthy. Hubbardston cions grafted on Ben Davis, Northern 



