30 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, fyc. 



better growth, and the trees are more durable ; therefore, if the graft sends its 

 roots down to the very extremities of the roots of the stock, if either becomes 

 impregnated, it must be the stock and not the scion. 



" The same by budding ; if nature had so ordered it, that the stock should 

 have had any influence on grafting, much more must it have had on budding, 

 where there is nothing left but the mere rind ; yet this small bud has been in 

 no instance ever known to degenerate on account of the stock, if budded on a 

 stock it was fond of. 



" What I mean by a bud being fond of a stock, is such stocks as buds and 

 grafts are usually worked on : this is one very necessary branch of a nursery- 

 man's profession, when he has a new fruit, to endeavour to find out such stock 

 as is best suited to its constitution, &c. 



" I remember many years back, when quite a boy, a common white jasmine 

 which was growing against the house, and being fond, even from my earliest 

 years, of trying experiments among trees, I took a bud from a striped jasmine, 

 and budded a branch of the green ; the bud grew, and what shoots put forth 

 below the bud, most of them became blotch-leaved: this is a proof the bud or 

 graft must have an effect on the stock." 



The Neiu American Orchardist ; or, an Account of the most valuable Varieties of 

 Fruit, of all Climates, adapted to Cultivation in the United States ; with their 

 History, Modes of Culture, Management, Uses, &>c. With an Appendix, on 

 Vegetables, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers, the Agricultural Re- 

 sources of America, and on Silk, §c. By William Kenrick. Third ed. 

 Boston, U. S. Small 8vo, pp. 450. 1841. 



A carefully prepared work, which must be of the greatest use in the 

 country in which it was produced. The following quotation on the Belgian 

 mode of obtaining new varieties, as described by Van Mons, may be inte- 

 resting to the English reader who is not in the habit of perusing French 

 works on horticulture : — 



" ' The Belgians give no preference to the seeds of table fruits, when they 

 plant to obtain new ameliorated kinds. When their plants appear, they do 

 not, like us, found their hopes upon individuals exempt from thorns, furnished 

 with large leaves, and remarkable for the size and beauty of their wood ; on 

 the contrary, they prefer the most thorny subjects, provided that the thorns 

 are long, and that the plants are furnished with many buds or eyes, placed 

 very near together. This last circumstance appears to them, and with reason, 

 to be an indication that the tree will speedily produce fruit. As soon as the 

 young individuals which offer these favourable appearances afford grafts or 

 buds capable of being inoculated upon other stocks, these operations are per- 

 formed (the apples on paradise, and the pears on quince stocks) to hasten 

 their fructification. The first fruit is generally very bad ; but the Belgians do 

 not regard that: whatever it is, they carefully collect the seeds and plant 

 them ; from these a second generation is produced, which commonly shows 

 the commencement of an amelioration. As soon as the young plants of this 

 second generation have scions or buds proper for the purpose, they are trans- 

 ferred to other stocks, as were the preceding ; the third and fourth generations 

 are treated in the same manner, and until there are finally produced amelio- 

 rated fruits worthy of being propagated. M. Van Mons asserts that the 

 peach and apricot, treated in this manner, afford excellent fruit in the third 

 generation. The apple does not yield superior fruit before the fourth or fifth 

 generation. The pear is slower in its amelioration ; but M. Van Mons 

 informs us that, in the sixth generation, it no longer produces inferior, but 

 affords excellent fruits, intermixed with those of a middling quality.' 



" Intelligent writers, those on whom we may rely, have assured us that the 

 new and numerous class of fruits which have arisen during the last forty 

 years is far more precious and inestimable in point of quality, than all pre- 

 viously known. They refer in this more particularly to pears. Trees of 

 those already most renowned are here." 



