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These are to be grafted in the manner already described in 

 our pages. Next to this, the quince stock is to be chosen. 

 The pear is dwarfed upon it. In other words, the two are 

 but imperfectly suited to each other, and the scion does not 

 develop according to its original nature. But this very 

 dwarfing adds something to the good qualities of the fruit, 

 afibrds trees so small that, at eight feet apart, they make 

 beautiful linings to a walk or border, and, morever, biings 

 the pear to its fruit several years earlier than if it were on 

 its own bottom. But on the other hand, the pear on quince 

 is comparatively short-lived. The white-thorn has been 

 tried as a stock and not without success, but it is hardly to 

 be used except in extremities. 



Last, and worst of all, comes the apple. The scion grows as 

 vigorously upon the apple as upon a stock of its own species, 

 and we do not know that the fruit deteriorates. But the 

 trees seem to have no co?istitution. After a few bearings 

 they seem struck with irremediable w'eakness, and soon run 

 down and die. Nurserymen ought not, therefore, to graft 

 the pear upon the apple. To do so, if advised of the fore- 

 going facts, cannot be honest. Our attention has been 

 called to the subject by some painful experience of our 

 own. 



Neshanoc Potato. — ^This potato (pronounced Jfesha- 

 noc), was raised fi-om the seed about the year 1800, by 

 John Gilkey, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He called it 

 Neshanoc, from a creek near to which he lived. It was 

 called by some, Mercer, from the county in which it was 

 raised. It is extensively cultivated, and desei-ves to be. 

 Mr. Gilkey was an Irishman — of course a judge of good 

 potatoes. 



