GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES 



apples, by the way, come from seeds sown, and 

 trees grown from them, with a bare chance that 

 one in ten thousand may be worth keeping. 

 When a variety seems thus worthy, "buds" or 

 "scions" from the original tree are "budded" 

 or "grafted" by the nurseryman into young 

 seedling trees, which are thus changed into 

 the selected sort. To sow the seeds of your 

 favorite Baldwin does not imply that you will 

 get Baldwin trees, by any means ; you will 

 more likely have a partial reversion to the 

 acid and bitter original species. 



It is not only for the fruit that we are 

 indebted to the Old World, but also for some 

 distinctively beautiful and most ornamental va- 

 rieties of the apple, not by any means as well 

 known among us as they ought to be. The 

 nurserymen sell as an ornamental small tree a 

 form known as "Parkman's double- flowering 

 crab," which produces blooms of much beauty, 

 like delicate little roses. Few of them, how- 

 ever, know of the glorious show that the spring 

 brings where there is a proper planting of the 

 Chinese and Japanese crab -apples, with some 

 other hybrids and varieties. To readers in New 



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