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and sometimes the trees were broken at the union by high winds. Worked 

 on apricot roots, the apricot made a better union and few trees were 

 lost through breaking off; nevertheless in spite of the congeniality of this 



combination, the death rate of these trees was higher than that of apricots 

 on other stocks. This evidently is a case of a lack of adaptability being 

 the limiting factor. Budd^^ reported similar lack of adaptability between 

 Russian apricots and plums. In this case some of the trees died without 



