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In regard to apples, he then remarks that "his experience is 

 that to produce perfect fruit the stock must agree with the 

 scion, and that trees budded in the nursery are liable to bear 

 imperfect fruit. He further says that to graft a late keeping 

 apple into an early stock will produce a poor keeping apple.' 



We have before us a letter from a gentleman in Westford 

 who has a large orchard. He says " there is a great difference 

 in the appearance -and quality of the same variety of fruit, 

 which in many instances 1 cannot account for by difference of 

 soil, location or exposure, therefore I think the natural stock 

 must liave some influence on the fruit of the scion." The 

 above is a fair representation of a large portion of our fruit 

 growers. There are however many marked cases that have 

 come to our knowledge, some of which we will notice. 



Reply of Mr. A.: — We had a tree grafted with Baldwins. 

 The stock produced a sweet rusty apple ; the produce of the 

 scion was a Baldwin some rusty, the flavor more mild than 

 Baldwins usually are. He further said they grafted scions 

 from a very sour ai)ple tree into a sweet stock. The fruit it 

 produced was a mild, pleasant apple, much more mild than 

 the fruit of the parent tree, from which the scion was taken. 



Mr. B. grafted Porter scions into an old tree that produced 

 sweet apples, red and somewhat spotted. The fruit it produced 

 was a mild pleasant Porter showing red spots. 



Mr. C. grafted Baldwin scions into a tree that produced 

 early apples, and the product decayed early. Another tree not 

 far distant, which bore late keeping apples, was grafted wath 

 Baldwin and their product kept well. 



Mr. D. grafted, as he says, with scions from a tree that 

 produced a large sweet apple particularly for baking purposes- 

 for family use. The stock produced a small, crabbed sour 

 apple. The product is a medium sized pleasant sour apple. 

 We visited the tree twice when the apples wero. in process of 

 ripening, for the express purpose of examining the fruit. 

 When the fruit was fully ripe it was very pleasant but could 

 hardly be called sweet ; a juicy, good eating apple. 



