l6 BEGINNERS^ GUIDE TO FRUIT GROWING 



FIG. 12 — REGRAFTED PLUM TREE 

 INFLUENCE OF STOCK ON CION 



The main purpose of graftage is to reproduce a 

 variety more accurately than it can be reproduced 

 by seed. A Baldwin apple, or a Green Gage plum, 

 for instance, will not come true from seed. When, 

 however, a variety is reproduced by grafting from 

 cions, the reproduction is sufficiently exact to an- 



