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We can be getting our stock beds in order right away. It is now 

 simple to work our bush-trees on true unmixed forms of Paradise 

 and to discover what those types are. It is only one step further 

 to adopt the idea of the standardization of free stocks by admitting 

 the present demonstrable lack of uniformity, and by meeting the evil 

 by careful root grading and selection and vegetative propagation of 

 desirable types of free-growing stock. So far there is every indication 

 that the influence of root stock is even more immediate than we thought 

 when we initiated these experiments. 



In conclusion, besides acknowledging the help of Mr. N. H. Grubb 

 in examining the free stocks very carefully, I am as usual indebted 

 to Mr. J. Amos for his assistance generally in these trials, and to 

 Mr. A. W. Witt over matters of propagation. 



