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French variety, on a great many different stocks, sonic of which 

 I considered the best for the purpose, but never have I met half 

 the success, so far as vigorous growth, as with the scions grafted 

 into the Bartlett. Another word about the Flemish Beauty as a 

 stock for the Bartlett. 



On this same lot a Flemish Beauty was grafted with the 

 Bartlett, about sixty feet westerly a Bartlett was set out budded 

 on seedling stock, the fruit from the seedling stock was green 

 and rather inferior, while on the Flemish Beauty stock the 

 Bartletts were high colored, with a tinge of red. In the case of 

 the Seckel, also grafted into a Flemish Beauty on this same lot, 

 the Seckel was very much higher colored than other Seckels 

 grown on the same soil near by. I will also say, that while the 

 Boscs grown on the Flemish Beauties were so high colored, 

 the Boscs grow non a Boussock tree on this same lot were green 

 and of poorer shape and size, so that the results of my grafting 

 leave me no doubt that not only is the scion influenced by the 

 stock but also the fruit ; that if I wanted to get high color into 

 a fruit I should graft into a tree that bore high colored fruit, and 

 if possible at the same time pears of the same or similar shape 

 into each other, with which idea in view I am now transforming 

 an Idaho pear tree by grafting it with the Sheldon. 



I have another example of the influence of stock on scion 

 shown by a photograph of an ornamental tree on the old Gov. 

 Lincoln grounds on Elm Street ; you will see that the scion or 

 graft has grown much faster than the stock, giving the tree a 

 somewhat top-heavy appearance. Many of you have seen apple 

 trees in orchards which presented the same conditions, of the 

 bud or graft growing so much faster than the stock. There is a 

 cherry tree on Austin Street in this city that i llustrates the same 

 action of scion on stock. 



You will also And the reverse, and the graft will be much 

 smaller than the stock for many years after complete union of 

 the parts has been made. But I feel I must close, though I 

 have but touched this great subject in which, though I have been 

 able to find little or nothing in Bailey or other authors on 

 Horticulture, I believe contains one of the finest opportunities for 



