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this season a dozen or more pears of fine appearance, which 

 were stolen by the boys about the last of July. Neither of 

 these two trees have ever exhibited any appearance of being 

 dwarfed by the stocks, but, on the contrary, promise to make 

 standard trees. 



In 1841, I grafted and set out, in the same way, fifty-nine 

 trees, of which eight were Green Chissel, fourteen Easter 

 Beurre, and thirty-seven Seckel. The Green Chissel all failed. 

 Five or six of the Easter Beurre grew, but have done nothing 

 since the first and second seasons. They are, to all appear- 

 ance, of no use whatever. About three fourths of the Seckel 

 grew, and of these, about one half are thrifty, and give prom- 

 ise of doing well. Some of them have been given away by 

 me, and others transplanted. 



In 1842, I grafted and set out in the same way, one hun- 

 dred and seventeen, of seven varieties, about one third of 

 which grew. Some varieties failed entirely. Of those that 

 grew, the Pound, Easter Beurre, and Williams's Bon Chre- 

 tien appear to do the best, and about one third of them are 

 doing tolerably well. I have not ascertained that any of these 

 have as yet made roots of their own, but think they have not. 

 Last year, I removed one, a Salviati, to the yard. It grew 

 the first season after transplanting. This year, it again leaved 

 out, but is now dead. It remained upon the apple root. 



The number grafted and set out in 1843 was seventy-two, 

 of which thirty-seven were Williams's Bon Chretien, and 

 thirty-five Easter Beurre. About one half of them grew. 

 They appear to have done better, upon the whole, than any 

 former trial, and a number of them are now of fine size for 

 transplanting to the orchard. I cannot say that any of them 

 have made roots of their own. Since 1843, I have not graft- 

 ed any pears upon the apple. 



You have now before you my experiments and their results, 

 as far as they are yet apparent. Each one is left to draw his 

 own conclusions from them. For myself, I do not regard 

 them as complete enough to lay down any thing as absolutely 

 determined by them. It will not, however, be going too far 

 to say that their tendency is strongly to shew, that root-graft- 

 ing the pear upon the apple cannot be relied upon by nursery- 

 men for propagating the pear ; unless some means be found 



