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recommend your friends to grow them that way. If you reply 

 that is a case of the affinity of species, I will say very true, the 

 law is working through the mutual influence of stock and scion. 



On a plot of land with soil of sandy loam, the plot being 

 about 50 by 100, with a southwest exposure, are a number of 

 pear trees nearly all double worked. The Beurre Bosc pear tree 

 obtained by budding a pear stock in the common way is of very 

 slow growth, growing but a few inches a year, and taking many 

 years to arrive at bearing condition. 



When grafted into one of three or four varieties of pears, 

 which while yielding inferior fruit are of superior stock, we get 

 in four years fruit, and sometimes in three, under favorable 

 conditions, fruit that is superior in form, color and size, to that 

 grown on the budded stock. But you will say this is true of 

 any variety ! Be it so, but it is not true of every stock. That 

 is, the scion of Beurre Bosc that is grafted into Flemish Beauty 

 stock will produce pears that excel in form, color and size all 

 together the same variety grafted in any other stock, on any 

 kind of soil, or other conditions. My experiments with these 

 two varieties cover a period of over thirty years begun on heavy 

 clay soil and continued on light sandy soil. I have here today 

 some photographs of Boscs grafted on the Flemish Beauty, and 

 if you will examine them you will see how close the union and 

 how equal the affinity. 



The same is true of a Cornice grafted into the Flemish Beauty 

 as regards the closeness of union, but not as regards vigor of 

 growth which on the Flemish Beauty tree or stock shown in the 

 photograph is scanty, while the Cornice grafted into the Bartlett 

 becomes so vigorous in growth as to be hardly recognized, and 

 if the fruit shall prove to be equal in quality to the vigor of 

 growth I shall have in the future no better use for Bartlett trees 

 than to graft them with Cornice. You will see in the photograph 

 that the Cornice scion has grown so fast, its affinity for the sap 

 furnished by the Bartlett stock so much greater than the affinity 

 of the Bartlett for the seedling, that in turn it is budded on, that 

 it has grown out and over the Bartlett stock about an inch on 

 each side. I have tried the Cornice, which is a not over strong 



