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D. O. M., Fall's Church, Va. — I write to inquire if you have ever heard of a 

 bud from a freestone peach, when budded on another stock, to bear a clingstone 

 peach. Three years ago, I took from the nursery-row what I supposed to be 

 three of the Smock's Late Free, and planted them in my orchard, but find that 

 one of them is a firm clingstone, having every appearance of the Smock's Free, 

 in fruit, leaf, and tree. — We think our friend must be mistaken ; for we never 

 knew the stock to exercise so great an influence over the bud as to change the 

 character of the fruit to the extent claimed in this case. We think a bud of 

 a clingstone variety must have got into the wrong place ; and hence the result. 



W. — Can any thing be done to prevent the premature dropping of the foliage 

 of the Delaware Grape .'' The grape will not ripen after the leaves drop. My 

 soil is a dry, sandy loam, pretty well enriched with compost of peat and barnyard 

 manure. — Some good growers of grapes use flour of sulphur, and scatter it over 

 the vine and under it, to prevent the mildew from injuring the leaves of the 

 Delaware and other grapes, and causing them to drop off. Sometimes this is 

 effectual for a while ; but it is very difficult, in some localities, to manage the 

 Delaware, and keep the foliage fine. Our own vines have lost their leaves 

 almost every year ; and this year so bad, that we did not get a single bunch of 

 ripe fruit. It will be best to avoid strong unfermented manures, and, during a 

 wet season, stir the soil as little as possible to keep the weeds down. If any 

 of our readers can give our friend any further information on this point, we shall 

 be glad to hear from them. 



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