934" The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
safer and more reliable; but persons who are will- 
ing and competent to give the extra care which 
the dwarfs need, and who have access to extra 
good markets, may generally grow the dwarfs with 
profit.* 
The parentage of the stock may affect its value.— 
“It is probable that many trees fail to bear because 
propagated from unproductive trees. We know that 
no two trees in any orchard are alike, either in the 
amount of fruit which they bear or in their vigor 
and habit of growth. Some are uniformly productive, 
and some are uniformly unproductive. We know, 
too, that cions or buds tend to reproduce the char- 
acters of the tree from which they are taken. A 
gardener would never think of taking cuttings from 
a rose bush, or chrysanthemum, or a_ carnation, 
which does not bear flowers. Why should a fruit- 
grower take cions from a tree which he knows to 
be unprofitable ? 
“The indiscriminate cutting of cions is too 
clumsy and inexact a practice for these days, when 
we are trying to introduce scientific methods into 
our farming. I am convinced that some trees can- 
not be made to bear by any amount of treatment. 
They are not the bearing kind. It is not every 
mare which will breed or every hen which will lay 
a hatfull of eggs. In my own practice, I am_ buy- 
ing the best nursery-grown stock of apples (mostly 
*Further remarks upon dwarf trees may be found in Nursery-Book, 3d 
ed., and in Lodeman’s “Dwarf Apples,” Bull. 116, Cornell Exp. Sta. 
