Propagation of the Fine. 



is a matter, however, which it is not proposed to discuss in 

 this place. 



One^of the most reliable operators in this line of investi- 

 gation, is the careful experimenter, and accurate observer, 

 Geo. W. Campbell, of Delaware, Ohio ; who is perfectly 

 satisfied that he has succeeded in effecting veritable crosses 

 between several varieties, and that he has even produced hy- 

 brids between the foreign and American species. Mr. Camp- 

 bell has been so good as to communicate some of the results 

 of his experiments to the public, with most interesting details, 

 in papers to the Ohio Pomologkal Society, and in an elaborate 

 article which may be found in the Report of the Department 

 of Agriculture, at Washington, for the year i86z, p. 209, to 

 which last the reader is particularly referred. In it the sub- 

 ject of hybridizing, cross-breeding, and selection of the seed- 

 lings, is pretty fully discussed. 



Mr. Campbell does not give a very flattering or encouraging 

 view of the prospects of any one who enters this field of in- 

 vestigation, when he says : — "that about ten years of further 

 care and culture (after fertilizing the blossoms), will be re- 

 quired before determinate results are reached, and that the 

 chances may be ten, or perhaps a hundred to one, that the 

 product will be of no value. A good deal of enthusiasm, as 

 well as a sanguine temperament, is necessary to enable the hy- 

 bridizer to find much encouragement in his pursuit. He must 

 be, emphatically, one who is willing 



'To labor and to wait.' " 



Up to this time the most of our leading kinds in cultiva- 

 tion are either natives, or accidental garden seedlings, which 

 are the result of selection merely, and have not been produced 

 by the application of scientific efforts bestowed upon the sub- 

 ject ; so with most of our American seedling fruits, of all kinds. J 



Cuttings. — Propagation from cuttings is, as regards 



