of Durham^ Northumberland., and Nensocastle upon Tyne. 23 



effect on the stock on which it is placed, as in the case of 

 engrafting an apple scion, or that of any of the varieties of 

 crab on the same kind of stock. The apple will have a much 

 more fibrous and a smaller root, while the crab will have a 

 large, strong, wiry root, which, after standing three or four 

 years, will be far more difficult to take up than that of the 

 apple. There is another curious fact which it may not be 

 amiss to mention here, and which confirms me in my opinion 

 of the stock being affected by the scion or bud that is intro- 

 duced into it. There is a blotched-leaved variety of the English 

 laburnum, a bud even of which being; inserted in the bark of 

 the common laburnum, whether the bud lives or not, the 

 laburnum invariably becomes blotched in its leaves like the 

 bud. If the blotched or striped leaves of the plants arise, as 

 I think it is generally admitted, from a disease, this may 

 justly be considered as virulent a disorder in the vegetable 

 world as the smallpox is in the human race, and this oper- 

 ation may very fairly be said to be inoculation.'"' 



Mr. Falla next gives a list of the hardier orchard fruits best 

 adapted to his part of the country ; and, as it may be very 

 useful to the orchardists of other districts similarly situated, 

 we shall copy the names. 



Keswick Codlin. Stagg's New Nonpareil. Cockpit. 

 Manks Codlin. Fulwood. Yorkshire Green. 

 Ribston Pippin. Kerry Pippin. Summer Redstreak. 3 

 Flowery Town. London Pippin. Leadington, 

 Carlisle Codlin. Hawthornden. Wheeler's Russet. 

 Hebburn Red! Nonesuch. Gateshead Lemon Pip- 

 Herefordshire Under- Sir Walter Blacket's pin. 



leaf. Favourite. Bringewood. 



Juneating. Greenup Pippin. Quarrenden. 



Winter Red Streak. Smith's Pippin. Arrowsmith's Pippin. 

 Hunthouse. 



" Pears of any but the commoner sorts, as standards, I fear, 

 would not have much chance of succeding in this part. The 

 Hassell, now generally known, is a most valuable variety as a 

 bearer. Of cherries, the May Duke and the Morello, and the 

 Greens, are the likeliest sorts as standard fruit, though I believe 

 the Florence is a very productive and hardy variety. Plums, as 

 standards, do not appear to repay the planter in this country 

 in any situation, which, I suspect, arises from their blossoms 

 being injured in the spring by the east winds, &c. From 

 seeing plums do so well on limestone districts, 1 am strongly 

 induced to think bone manure might be of great service to 

 them : at any rate, the experiment is Avorth trying. 



'' In planting orchards in this country, I think it would be an 

 excellent plan to plant the earlier bearers between the sorts 



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