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The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



Five Pecans in 

 One Cluster 



means prolific bearing, only one 

 of the good qualities of grafted 

 trees which means Jones' Trees 

 usually, as most firms sell seed- 

 ling trees only. 



You can have trees like this 

 on your home grounds. They require com- 

 paratively little attention after planting and 

 produce annual crops of fine nuts in ad- 

 dition to shade. The pecan is distinctive 

 and no better or more beautiful lawn tree 

 can be found. 



Write for Catalogue 



J. F. JONES— Nut Specialist 



Box G Lancaster, Penna. 



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I have never seen any instruction for culti- 

 vating these beautiful flowers. I have visited 

 gardens where it was produced, not really grown, 

 and have felt so full of pity for its little feet slip- 

 ping, sliding, in light sandy soil trying vainly to 

 obtain a foothold to breathe and throw out 

 beautiful blossoms as it does when standing firm 

 and strong in its native soil. An adobe hill look- 

 ing toward the sun it delights in, and whenever a 

 fair allotment of clay is given it in the garden it 

 is well worth growing. 



S. B. Walker, Denver, Colo. 



FERTILITY OF APPLES 



PROM comments that have appeared, it 

 I would seem that the bulletin issued by the 

 Maine Experiment Station relating to the 

 fertility of Apples has caused some surprise. 

 Actually, however, there is nothing new in the 

 announcement that many Apples are self sterile, 

 a fact well known to many large growers. 



According to the Maine experiments, only 

 about a dozen varieties out of two hundred can be 

 depended upon to set either with their own pollen 

 or that from some other tree of the same variety. 

 Most of the others, however, set freely when 

 fertilized with pollen from other varieties. This 

 subject has long been investigated and discussed 

 in Europe, and up-to-date planters have made a 

 point of setting out heavy pollen-bearing vari- 

 eties among those known to be more or less sterile. 



The famous English Apple, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, is recognized as almost sterile; whereas 

 the popular early variety, Worcester Pearmain, 

 is particularly patent for ensuring a good set. 

 Herein lies the value of dwarf trees for small 

 gardens, as a sufficient assortment may be 

 planted to ensure a crop on some trees every 

 season. 



Incidentally, it is probable that bloom set 

 with foreign pollen produces finer and better 

 flavored fruit than self-set flowers. 1 1 is generally 

 assumed that cross fertilization affects only the 

 seed; but in fruits, it is not unreasonable to 

 suppose that the stimulation of the ovaries by 

 foreign pollen may actually affect the fruit 

 itself. 



Stocks, too, play an important part; for while 

 there is little in the theory of pedigreed trees, it 

 is unquestionably a fact that stocks do affect both 

 the growth of a tree and the fruit it bears. If 

 pedigree plays any part at all, it lies in the stock, 

 and for this reason, bush trees on true Paradise 

 stocks may be depended upon to yield a more 

 even and finer grade of fruit than those worked on 

 free stocks which are seedlings pure and simple, 

 with all the varying qualities that seedlings 

 naturally possess. One may not infrequently 

 find two trees of the same variety yielding fruit 

 differing to the extent that one colors freely 

 while the other shows little inclination to color. 

 The flavor of such fruit, too, may be so different 

 that one almost doubts their relationship. 



Realizing the general mixture existing in fruit 

 stocks, one county association in England has for 

 some years conducted an experiment station 

 which has resulted in many surprising discoveries 

 .regarding fruit stocks, particularly in regard to 

 the Paradise. 



T. A. Weston, N. J. 



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