76 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



this State gave one instance where the Roxbury Russet 

 marked upon Golden Sweet was much effected in both 

 flavor and season. Several growers of Red Canada fully 

 demonstrate that it is much changed by different stocks, as 

 already quoted. One writer in Gardeners' Chrotiicle states 

 that Aldenburg on Early Strawberry, both early kinds, 

 was carried fully three weeks in advance of its usual 

 season. 



Does the cion have influence on the parts of a tree not 

 marked? It evidently did in the case of the Ribston Pip- 

 pin and Alexander. A Massachusetts grower grafted half 

 the top of a Gloria Mundi with a sweet apple, with the 

 double result of making the sour apple much less sour and 

 the sweet ones affected the other way. An Ohio grower 

 put King upon a tree bearing small green fruit and after- 

 ward had striped apples on the ungrafted portion. In 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, instances are very common 

 where top marking with colored or variegated foliage has 

 caused the stock to assume foliage of like character. Ex- 

 President Clark of Massachusetts Agricultural College said 

 one should expect such changes by the cion as the sap is 

 elaborated in the leaves; yet hundreds of cases can be 

 found where no evident change does take place, as where 

 several kinds are on one tree, and almost any one can call 

 to mind where seedlings have been top-grafted and the 

 part left in no wise affected. 



Third. What may zve expect of diseased stocks or cions. 

 Botanists claim that variegated foliage always indicates, or 

 is, disease. That may be produced both above and below 

 the point of union as just stated. Stronger cases can be 

 shown A Mr. Burr of Massachusetts tried putting a long- 

 keeping russet upon a tree that rotted its fruit before it 

 was ripe. He failed. The stock had an influence strong 

 enough to transmit the disease of rotting to the long-keep- 

 ing variety. Mr. A. G. Downing claimed that the power 

 to transmit disease was the only evident effect of cion upon 

 the stock, and followed by saying that a healthy stock 

 several times continued would not cure a diseased cion, 

 and quotes trees budded with yellows dying both top and 

 bottom. The writer has induced the disease in the stock, 



