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by the stock nor the stock by the scion ; that is not 

 modified radically, although grafting sometimes 

 increases or otherwise modifies the vigor of growth 

 and the extent of the root system of the stock. 



One of the Stoneless Plums (Center) and Two of its Parents. 

 On the right hand is the common French prune. 



If now the fruit from our variant seedling is 

 sufficiently desirable ; if it produces earlier or later, 

 sweeter or larger, firmer or more abundant, plums, 

 we have a new race of plums, a 'new creation' to 

 go into that thin catalogue of results. For by 

 simply subdividing the wood of the new branch, 

 /. e,y making new grafts from it, the new plum can 



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