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SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 



dependable qualities is still an open question. The best 

 recognized example of this influence is the dwarfing of cer- 

 tain standard fruits when worked on smaller stature plants. 

 Thus apples are worked upon doucine or paradise stock, 

 or pears upon the quince for this purpose. Peaches are 



FIG. 72. Almond Grafted on Peach. Tree forty-two years old. 

 Measures in circumference nine feet one inch above the union and 

 ten feet 4 inches below. 



dwarfed by working them on the common American plum 

 while oranges and lemons are put on the citron. 



While slow-growing stocks tend to reduce the stature 

 of plants grafted upon them, the converse of this is also 

 true, although probably to a lesser degree. While the quince 

 as a stock will dwarf the pear the reversing of the process 

 will tend to increase the stature of the quince. The French 



