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as the graft. There is now every indication to show that the trees 

 worked upon Broad-leaf (Type I), Nonsuch (Type VI), and Type 

 VII will prove the most vigorous, probably in the above order. Of 

 these Broad-leaf is undoubtedly the best anchored, and one is almost 

 tempted to use it for standard work. 



The Doucin or English Paradise is undoubtedly more dwarfing than 

 Broad-leaf. This is already shown in the vigour of the young trees, as 

 well as in the more obvious swelling at the union betwixt scion and 

 stock, and I have little hesitation in saying that it will be more pre- 

 cocious in cropping than the Broad-leaf, and is therefore possibly better 

 adapted for the purpose of temporary fillers. At the same time it 

 is not so well anchored as the Broad-leaf, more apt to be caught by 

 the wind and worked round in the soil, and therefore, I think, less suit- 

 able for very heavy-headed trees such as Bramley 's Seedling. It seems 

 to me that the Broad-leaf (Type I) and the Doucin or English Paradise 

 (Type II) are so distinct in function that they are both likely to find 

 a permanent place, the former especially, for permanent bush planta- 

 tions and for weak-growing varieties, the latter for bush fillers, for the 

 acceleration of cropping, and for more dwarfing purposes. Both 

 appear to be excellently healthy stocks — such, at any rate, are the 

 indications on our soil. So far no particular advantages are apparent 

 either in Types VI or VII. The former is apt to be a coarse stock, 

 and the latter, though vigorous, shows signs of a defective and poorly 

 anchored root system. 



Of the distinctly more dwarfing types, Types IV, V (Improved 

 Doucin), and IX (Jaune de Metz), I think, are alone worthy of dis- 

 cussion. The continued and marked bad suckering habit of Type III, 

 our ' Holly Leaf,' alone justifies one discarding it. At the moment 

 I am concerned to see the high percentage of this stock, which has come 

 into the country last autumn from abroad, mixed up with Doucin 

 (English Paradise) and Type V (Improved Doucin). The True French 

 Paradise (Type VIII), still unfortunately only too evident as a rogue 

 amongst the imported Doucin stocks, has already yielded the most 

 striking indications of the extreme possibilities of stock influence. 

 The trees worked thereon are markedly more dwarfed than on any 

 other type except the Jaune de Metz. All the varieties worked 

 thereon — Bramley' s Seedling, Lane's Prince Albert, and Worcester 

 Pearmain — were thrown into considerable cropping in the second year 

 from the graft — quite a remarkable sight. Were it not for the fact that 

 this stock proves so unhealthy on our soil, it might have its uses. We 

 have mentioned in previous reports the liability of the stock itself to 

 canker in the nursery row. There is now a very striking indication of 

 the danger of using inherently unhealthy stocks, for no less than 20 

 per cent, of the two-year-old trees worked on French Paradise 

 have already developed canker seriously, especially markedly upon 

 the Bramley's Seedling. 



I should say that the Jaune de Metz Paradise (Type IX) will 

 prove almost as dwarfing and precocious, and fortunately it has 



