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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



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Stories of Familiar Plants 



WHEN you look at your Teas' weeping mul- 

 berry do you realize that it is a compound 

 tree — the product of nature, and the cunning of 

 man? That is, it is one tree placed upon another 

 — a two-storied tree, the lower story being the up- 

 right form, and the drooping branches a weeping 

 form — each story being part of separate and dis- 

 tinct trees. Nature is somewhat fickle at times, 

 and in her reproductive moods often varies from the 

 type, and produces what we of the gardening world 

 call a "sport." A sport is a departure from the 

 type form — a departure in color or form of flower 

 or leaf, or in the habit of growth. If this change 

 is an attractive one, man perpetuates it, and it 

 soon becomes a habitant of our garden. How does 

 man perpetuate it? Often by rooted cuttings, but 

 mainly by budding or grafting; a sport seldom per- 

 petuates itself by seed. 



Now it seems strange that in the case of this 

 mulberry, the same sap gathered by the feeding 

 roots of an ordinary upright form, and carried up 

 through its trunk, should produce a pendulous 

 growth the moment it enters that part of the head 

 representing the growth of the graft or bud. Any 

 branch growing from the trunk below the graft 

 would assume an upright form, and any branch 

 from above the graft would be pendulous. 



The reason is plain when we stop to consider 

 the fact that all extending growth of a tree is 

 caused by the multiplication of its sap cells; that 

 each sap-cell matter produces only a like cell 

 matter, which in turn produces the same form of 

 growth the parent cell did. When the grafting 

 or budding took place the cells of the stock and 

 cion coalesced, and the passage of sap was unin- 

 terrupted; but the form of the new growth pro- 

 duced by the descending sap is influenced by the 

 cell matter through which it passes. The cells 

 at the top of a tree are remote multiples of those 

 that existed perhaps fifty years ago at the base. 



They are the continuation of life-matter that 

 existed years ago, and that continuation of life 

 may, through grafting, be carried on indefinitely. 

 The original sport may die, yet live in its own cell 

 multiple. Successful results in grafting are only 

 obtained generally when the stock and cion are 

 very much alike. There are exceptions to this 

 rule, however, the lilac often being grafted upon the 

 privet. A tomato vine may be grafted upon a 

 potato vine, and both fruit and tuber gathered, as 

 both are solanums, but they are both of poor 

 quality. 



All of these grafted trees have a history, which 

 to me is interesting. I grew most of them, and 

 have endeavored to ascertain their origin, which 

 is here given. 



bechtel's double flowering crab 



This splendid hardy acquisition to our gardens 

 seems to be of comparatively recent introduction. 

 Still it was known to exist more than fifty years ago, 

 but only by those who took but little interest in 

 ornamental horticulture. It is a sport of Pyrus 

 Ioensis, or P. angiislifolia (of which Professor Gray 

 says: "Perhaps a variety of P. coronaria") and 

 presents the usual case of "doubling" — the pistils 

 changing into petals. In 1898 I wrote to Mr. 

 Theo. Bechtel of Staunton, 111., for particulars re- 

 garding its history and he kindly replied as follows: 



"Some time in the 'seventies, when my father 

 the late E. A. Bechtel, was conducting a little 

 nursery four miles west of Staunton, 111., we used 

 to hear the most wonderful tales of a flowering 



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