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union with the peach, but all of the Japanese plums, French prune, 

 Imperiale prune, Burbank's Sugar prune, and most other plums succeed 

 on peach. A root-graft makes a cleaner, straighter tree than a budded 

 tree, and roots will, grow from the point of union, thus giving some of 

 both plum and peach. My own experience here coincides with that of 

 Mr. Kerr, and I would unhesitatingly recommend the peach stock for 

 plums or prunes on any good fruit land. 



What is known as " double-working " is a plan by which a tree may 

 be made more adaptive to the various conditions. For instance, such a 

 variety as the Italian prune (known here as Fellenberg) is grafted or 

 budded on peach stock and subsequently again grafted some two or 

 three feet from the ground with any other variety of plum. Thus we 

 have an exceptionally hardy and vigorous trunk to our future tree, one 

 that is less liable to sun-scald, to be bark-bound, or to any other ail- 

 ment. Further, this enables us to grow such varieties as Robe de 

 Sergent, Yellow Egg, etc., on a peach root, on which they could not be 

 directly worked, owing to non-adaptability of stock and cion. 



The planter should always visit the nursery from which he expects 

 to get his trees during the growing season. He should learn what he 

 can about stocks; in short, use his intelligence in this as in other 

 business matters. 



The nurseryman should only grow what it is for the best interests of 

 the orchardist to plant, and he should be encouraged to do so by closer 

 mutual acquaintance and a willingness on the part of the planter to pay 

 a fair price for a good article. 



RESISTANT VINE STOCKS. 



Essay by E. D. SWEETSER, of Santa Rosa. 



My purpose in this essay is to champion a native California stock 

 which I honestly believe will repay a thorough investigation on the 

 part of the majority of the wine-growers of this State. 



In the fall of 1868, the deadly phylloxera was probably at work in 

 the old Appleton vineyard near Agua Caliente, in Sonoma County. 



According to a well-informed pioneer of 1850, the pest was certainly 

 multiplying in the fair vineyards of Sonoma Valley for twenty years 

 prior to the destructive period between 1885 and 1893. 



The Spanish missionaries found that valley especially adapted to the 

 grape and drank wine from their own vines before the Bear Flag was 

 raised at Sonoma fifty years ago. More grapes were raised in the region 

 drained by Sonoma Creek t during the sixties than in all the rest of the 

 county. As late as 1885, Messrs. Atilla, Haraszthy, and D. D. Davisson, 

 acting for the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, ascertained 



