6f) WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1900. 



original research to be followed with results of great benefit to 

 all engaged in Horticulture. I hope all will feel at liberty to 

 ask questions or add to the interest of the subject by giving 

 their own experience. 



Thanking you, Mr. President and Members, for your kind 

 attention, I feel I cannot close this paper in more fitting manner 

 than to repeat again those beautiful lines from Shakespeare : 



" You see, sweet maid, we marry 

 A gentle scion to the wildest stock, 

 And make conceive a bark of baser kind 

 By bud of nobler race; this is an art 

 Which does mend Nature ; change it rather ; but 

 The art itself is Nature." 



Mr. O'Connell. — Do you always set in two scions when you 

 graft '* 



Mr. Marble. — No ; but in a large stock I often put in two, 

 and in a still larger three or even four. 



In answer to a request to illustrate double working, Mr. 

 Marble said, double working is simply grafting on a grafted 

 tree. You graft a Baldwin scion, for instance, on a thorn root ; 

 then, in course of time, you want a Gravenstein, so you saw 

 off some limbs of the Baldwin and graft in the Gravenstein 

 scions. Double working is often done with the plum, seldom 

 successfully with the cherry. The result of double working is, 

 that you get fruit earlier than you would with the single. You 

 use a fast growing tree for the first graft, such as the Vicar or 

 Flemish Beauty, on which to graft such a pear as the Bcurre 

 Bosc, and you get fruit in four years, and I have in three, when 

 the parent stock would take fifteen years to produce fruit. 



Henry E. Rich agreed with Mr. Marble in most of his con- 

 elusions. He said he doesn't understand about the Baldwin 

 fruit varying so much in color. His trees show little difference 

 in color of fruit. He has noticed that the Baldwin trees that 

 bear out of season generally produce light colored fruit. The 

 greater difficulty in handling the pear as compared with the 

 apple, he thought was due to the fact that the apple is a native 

 of this country and can be found growing wild almost anywhere, 



