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on the free or common stock. So it is with pears — the hirgest specimens of Bartlett, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey^ Duchesse (T Angouleme, or White Doyenne, we have ever seen, 

 were grown upon dwarf trees. The idea, therefore, that a dwarf tree must produce 

 small fruit is just the reverse of the fact. At another time we may offer some remarks 

 on the cause of this. 



Some imagine that to propagate Dwarf Trees it is necessary to take the scions from 

 dwarfs. We have heard this notion advanced often, and in one case by a young nur- 

 seryman. There is not, perhaps one person in ten thousand, however, but knows better 

 than this. Dwarfing is the result of budding or grafting on a particular stock, as we 

 have already said, and it matters not whether we take our buds or scions from a dwarf 

 or a standard tree, from one three feet or thirty feet high, the result will be the same, 

 if tlie scions are in both crises equally healthy. We can also take buds or scions from 

 dwarf trees and work them on common or free stocks, to produce standards. 



In regard to stocks there is one point on which even many intelligent cultivators are 

 not well informed, and that is the necessity of the stock and scion being of the same 

 natural genera, or alliance at least. Thus, the botanical order Pomacece, or Appleworts, 

 as LiNDLEY renders it, in the Vegetable Kingdom, embraces the apple, (pyrus malus;) 

 the Pear, {^pyrus communis;) the Siberian Crab, (^pyrus baccata;) the Quince, (Cydonia;) 

 the Medlar, (^Mesjnlus;) the Mountain Ash, (^pyrus aucuparia;) tlie Thorns, (cratcegus ;) 

 the Amelanchiers, of which our native Shadblow is one ; the Pkotinia, the Cotoneaster, 

 &c. These have all strongly marked natural affinities, and may with more or less suc- 

 cess bo budded or grafted upon each other. But the more nearly they are related — that 

 is, the greater the congeniality in their natures, the more successful will be the union : 

 thus, the pear will grow upon the apple, but much better upon either the quince, thorn, 

 or mountain ash. But, if we should attempt to graft one of the species belonging to 

 this order of appleworts, (^pomacece^) upon another belonging to the order drupacae or 

 " almondworts," [ Veg. Jving.'] we would be utterly unsuccessful, for these two have 

 strongly marked botanical difierences, and little or no congeniality of nature. We can 

 never, therefore, graft apples, pears, or quinces, upon cherries, plums, or peaches. 



The order Drupaceoe or Almondwort, alluded to, embraces all the species of plum, 

 cherry, peach, apricot and almond. These have all certain prominent botanical similarities 

 and afiinities, and may all be worked upon each other with success proportionate to the 

 strength of the affinity : hence, the peach, apricot, almond, and plum, in general gi-ow 

 upon one another perfectly well, but none of them can be worked to any practical 

 advantage upon the cherry. The genus cerasus, (the cherry,) contains many species, 

 differing greatly in appearance ; for instance, the Mahaleh and Mazzard are as distinct 

 in general appearance of foliage and habit as an oak and a willow, yet they grow well ■ 

 one upon the other, because of a congenial nature. 



We cannot at this time follow up these points further, but we have drawn attention' 

 to them, and Avill add that every one who aims at being an intelligent cultivator should 

 not fail to give it attentive consideration. 



Many people who have never seen dwarf trees, but order them from nurseries are 

 quite disappointed when they see them. A tree two, three, or four feet high seems 

 small to those who have all their lives been accustomed to large trees. They fear "they 

 will never come to anything." We have seen people in search of dwarf trees, and vet 

 ask the tallest tree in a row. Dwarf apples are of course very small when transplanted. 

 A yearling will be from one to two feet, and at two years very little taller, but branched. 

 Such diminutive things to the inexperienced are too small. One man says " the dwarf 

 apples are sprouts — not what I imagined them at all." There is a much greater lack of 

 knowledge on this subject than there ought to be, when books and papers that contain 

 the remedy are so abundant and cheap. Young cultivators, think of these thino-s 

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