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into the question of tnc laws of the affinities of species, except 

 that kinds to he united by grafting must be of the same botanic 

 family. For instance, the pear is grafted on the apple and the 

 peach on the apricot with great difficulty, while the apple and 

 pear do well on the quince and the peach and apricot on the plum 

 tree. As one result of grafting, those who are fond of oddities 

 can have not only a dozen different varieties of pears or apples 

 on the same tree, but also on the same thorn stock, at the same 

 time, branches of the pear in fruit, the medlar, the beam tree, 

 the service tree, the mountain ash, the European and Japanese 

 quince, and also see there the flowers of the double and red 

 thorns. They may gather from the same plum stock, plums, 

 apricots, peaches, nectarines, almonds, the Canadian cherry, 

 and flowers of the Chinese and Japanese plums and so on. 



Bartlett pears have been exhibited in this hall by the late 

 Charles Goodwin from scions grafted into an apple tree, but the 

 results were not such as to encourage further efforts in that 

 direction, while some varieties of pears do better grafted on 

 quince stock than on pear, notably the Duchess. 



I have known two Duchess trees in the same garden with the 

 same soil and exposure, one on pear roots, the other on quince. 

 The one on quince roots produced very fine pears in color, 

 form, eating quality and size, some of them weighing sixteen 

 ounces apiece, while on the pear roots the fruit was very much 

 inferior in quality and only about half the size. With some 

 other varieties the reverse will be true. And yet, still again, 

 I have known a few cases where the pear had been grafted on to 

 quince stock and afterwards planted so deep that the pear wood 

 had sent out roots, and the result of that graft was two sets of 

 roots, pear and quince, and the resulting tree and fruit the best 

 I ever saw of the kind. 



Another form of double working, the grafting of stone-seeded 

 fruits like the cherry, plum or apricot, is not attended with the 

 same degree of success as the grafting of fruit trees like the 

 apple or pear. The grafting of evergreen trees on deciduous 

 kinds presents many singularities as, for instance, the common 

 laurel will succeed on the wild cherry, from which it differs so 



