but a Ribston Pip})in. It is well known that the 

 stock will have an effect upon the variety worked 

 upon it ; so will the soil in which it may be planted. 

 The stock, the soil, the climate, and pruning, all 

 have an effect ; and a combination of these must have 

 a powerful effect, but never that of producing a per- 

 manentli) different thing. If the Mignonne Petite 

 Peach could be grown to equal in size the Grosse 

 Mignonne, I would not even then alter my opinion : 

 but when the reniform glands of the former can be 

 changed by cultivation into globose, like those of the 

 latter, it might then be admitted that one sort may 

 be made into another, independent of being raised 

 from seed. 



Those who read the account of the age of the 

 parent tree of this excellent sort, and who express 

 themselves in regard to it as being the best fruit 

 of Apple kinds, need not be alarmed at the state- 

 ment of the old tree being in a state of decay, and 

 producing latterly but sparingly, and the fruit be- 

 comino- smaller than some had recollected to have 

 seen it. Young trees may be found, free from 

 canker, growing vigorously, and producing fruit 

 perhaps superior to that ever produced on the 

 original. 



Are all sorts of trees equally subject to canker ? 

 — Some are more so than others. Do young trees, 

 or seedlings lately raised, never canker? — Some of 

 them will. The canker, therefore, does not depend 

 entirely on the age of the variety. The nature, or 

 the original constitution of the tree, or the quality 

 of its sap or juices, is perhaps more the cause than 



