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abundant on the hills. There is also a kind of small apple 

 that has become fairly abundant. It throws up shoots from 

 its roots, which are dug up and used as seedling apples are 

 used in the United States. The cooking-pear furnished me 

 with abundant juicy stocks, and I found it easy to propagate 

 my American pears by budding on them. A little Bartlett 

 pear furnished me in April with 32 buds. These were inserted 

 in the shoots of the cooking-pear and all grew. They made 

 shoots in two months from one foot to two and a-half feet long. 



In August I used some buds from these shoots, and they are 

 (October) growing, bearing two or three leaf buds to shoots 

 three inches long. These are the grandchildren of that little 

 Bartlett pear tree — two generations in five months. The tem- 

 perature varies very little through the year here. The thermom- 

 eter does not rise at Kodai Kanal above 75 degrees Fahr., and 

 except in low places by the lake, I have never seen the thin- 

 nest ice formed. So, I think I could secure the fourth gen- 

 eration from that Bartlett pear in one year in my open nursery. 



I had trouble in finding stocks of apple and peach in suffi- 

 cient quantity for my purpose. The apple seeds I have tried 

 have not germinated, and but few of the peach pits. I tried 

 them cracked and uncracked ; but one day a neighbor said 

 that peach trees would grow here from cuttings. I hastened 

 to put out a lot of peach cuttings and they are growing finely, 

 and will be big enough to bud when I come here again next 

 March. I put out apple and lemon cuttings at the same time, 

 and they also are growing. This year has been an unusually 

 rainy one, and so very favorable to the sticking and growing 

 of cuttings. But I think that cuttings from all the hard-wood 

 fruit trees of the temperate and torrid zones may develope into 

 trees here ; so that stocks will be provided for budding ; or the 

 branches of good fruit trees may be cut in pieces and grown 

 into trees, just as we treat roses. 



I have a hedge of our hedge-rose that will soon protect my 

 garden. I selected the cuttings in March and April. The mass 

 of shoots is now two feet wide and two feet high. I nip the tips 

 to thicken the hedge, and after it gets larger, the lower branches 

 will fade and then become black under the shade. But they 

 will not rot. They will remain like barbed wire, and if the 

 hedge is carefully trimmed from the first, fowl will not be able 

 to get through it, nor any animal to get over it when it is two 



