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and are productive. In fact, a moderate growth is more 

 likely to be a healthy one. 



But, after all, would not all these Japan plums be likely 

 to succeed just as well on their own roots as on any other 

 stock? There would be no difficulty in treating them thus 

 by grafting on the Marianna plum, and then cutting away the 

 stocks after the scions had taken root at the lower ends. 

 Some of the Japan plums, particularly the Satsuma, will 

 sometimes grow quite well from cuttings, and all would likely 

 root if treated as described in the chapter on grafting. It is 

 well worth trying, for naturally vigorous trees like these 

 plums would do best on their own roots. But in the near 

 future Mr. Luther Burbank promises us a far better stock 

 than any we now have. He has crossed the Satsuma on other 

 varieties, and thinks he has something that will fill the long 

 desired want for a vigorous stock particularly adapted to the 

 Japan varieties as well as all other plums. 



