April 3, i88q.] 



Garden and Forest. 



161 



Fig. loi. — Calochortus Obispoensis. — See page 160. 



this question were collected and published by the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society in their Reports of the Apple and Pear Con- 

 ferences held at Chiswick several years ago. Exhibitors were 

 required to state with each kind of fruit shown the nature of 

 the soil upon which it had been grown and the kind of 

 stock used. The general opinion was greatly in favor of 

 the Paradise and Quince stocks. Mr. G. Bunyard, of Kent, a 

 most successful grower of fruit and fruit-trees for market, has 



recently discussed this question, and as his opinions on a sub- 

 ject interesting to your readers may be valuable, I quote them : 

 " Now, I maintain that it stands to reason and common sense, 

 that surface roots must receive the benefit of the rains, sun 

 and air more than the anchor roots, which are, by reason ot 

 their position, more removed from such benign influence ; 

 and the teaching of fact in tliis case follows out the leading ot 

 logic, and we find by experience that Pears grafted upon the 



