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trees on Mailing IX. Another possible disappointment with dwarf trees is 

 rooting from the scion. If earth surrounds the tree above the bud union, 

 rooting from the scion will surely occur and the dwarfing effect of the stock 

 will be lost. There is going to be a lot of disappointment with dv/arf trees 

 and a good deal of it will arise from the use of improper stocks. It is going 

 to be a big job to keep dwarf stocks true-to-naijie. They can be identified 

 before budding but after the tree gr'Jws it is impossible to be sure in all 

 cases. The Massachusetts Tnjeness-to-name Inspection Service is trying to 

 do what it can to keep the Mailing stocks correct, but it is a diffiotilt task, 



J. K, Shaw 



Unveiling a "Eftvarf Tree" , A bit of vmrehearsed comedy 

 was enacted in VJorcester last spring. Two business 

 men who live on adjacent properties decided to make a 

 joint purchase of a dwarf apple tree to be planted on 

 the line separating their gardens, y^th due ceremony 

 they dug a large hole, filled it v;ith loam and carried 

 their \vell wrapped bundle to the. scene of action while 

 their v/ives looked on with pride, Yihen the wrappings 

 were removed the prospective orchardists gazed with 

 dismay on — of all things, a Forsythia bushi To make 

 matters worse, one of the men had been trying for two 

 years to rid his property of a tangled growth of that 

 sane kind of plant. 



Two Observations in a Granville Orchard , In the fall of 1944, 100 

 apple maggot pupae were placed in the soil beneath a screened cage 

 in the orchard of Ralph Roberts in Granville, Mr, Roberts kept watch 

 of the emergence of files during the sumiaer of 1945. y/hen we visited 

 the orchard a few days ago we decided to take a look at the cage 

 v/hich had remained undisturbed. No pupae had been planted there in 

 the fall of 1945, To our surprise v/e found one maggot fly, which 

 bears out the contention of investigators that an occasional pupa 

 remains in the ground two winters before emerging as a fly. 



The effect of a good pollenizer on the set of Mcintosh 

 was strikingly illustrated in this same orchard. In one block there 

 are several rows of Mcintosh and a single tree of Delicious. The 

 Mcintosh troes iixaediately adjacent to the Delicious have a very heavy 

 set of apples. On the troes a little farther from the Delicious the 

 set is much lightor and becoracs increasingly so on tha mJre distant 

 trees. Here is an object lesson more convincing than anything we 

 night say about the imp jrtanco of i:iearby pollenizers. 



