1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
115 
Apple Seedlings in the South. 
Header, Alabama .—We have some very 
rich, dark, loamy land, well drained, which 
we want for apple and pear nurseries. It 
is sure to give large heavy growth, but 
will such land be likely to give more 
trouble with Woolly aphis than cultivated 
land? Do certain conditions of growth, 
culture or fertilizing increase aphis, black 
knot or crown gall? We have been trying 
northern-grown apple seedlings. Would 
such seedlings grown at the South be as 
hearty as those grown in the Northwest? 
Apple trees grown in such a soil as 
our Alabama friend describes will be 
likely to be worse infested with .aphis 
than if grown in a lighter and higher 
soil. Whether the loss from this source 
will be greater than would be the gain 
in the use of such a productive soil, can 
only be determined by experiment. That 
the condition and method of cultivation 
have an influence on both aphis and 
crown gall is certain, but we have not 
yet worked it out quite to our satisfac¬ 
tion. There is a large field for experi¬ 
ment along this line. We have grown 
apple seedlings here several times, with 
varying success, but take it altogether 
we find it more satisfactory to use the 
western-grown seedlings. 
Pike Co., Ga. smith bros. 
We cannot grow apples successfully 
here; in fact, have given it up. We used 
to think that on new land we would not 
get as much aphis as we would on land 
that had grown trees previously, but I 
think the worst infested block of apples 
we ever grew was on a piece of land that 
had been cleared only a few years and 
which had never had nursery trees of 
any kind on it previously. On the other 
hand we have taken some of our best 
blocks off land that had apples on it 
previously. We are inclined to think 
that it is more in the seedling than in 
the land. We never had seedlings that 
showed aphis on arrival, but think it 
must be there. We think the best west¬ 
ern-grown apple seedlings are the best 
to be had, but have had only limited ex¬ 
perience with foreign stocks, and none 
at all with home or southern grown. 
ALABAMA NURSERY OO. 
Madison Co., Ala. 
In my judgment the dark, loamy, well- 
drained land mentioned would be a suit¬ 
able kind for growing nursery stock, es¬ 
pecially apples and pears. I find no dif¬ 
ference in new and old land so far as the 
Woolly aphis, crown gall, etc., is con¬ 
cerned. Of course land of this kind is 
supposed to be on a clay subsoil. Apple 
seedlings will not grow in the South to 
any advantage. N. w. hale. 
Tennessee. 
Grafting Apple on Pear Tree. 
A reader in California asks if it is pos¬ 
sible to graft the apple on pear. Would 
such an undertaking be likely to succeed? 
The apple has been grafted on the 
pear, but what varieties will unite with 
a good junction I cannot tell you. Years 
since I tried this experiment myself, but 
found they were short-lived trees. There 
will be a flow of sap that will make a 
union, but there is not a sufficient de¬ 
gree of affinity between the pear and 
apple that will make them a permanent 
SUCCeSS. S. D. WILLARD. 
New York. 
The apple will grow on the pear, but 
with no practical success. I have tried 
it, and seen others do it, but the union 
is poor, and soon breaks off. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
I have never seen an instance where 
top-grafting of this sort resulted in a 
good, durable tree. The apple can be 
top-grafted on the pear and good unions 
can be secured, but it soon overgrows 
the stock in all cases that I have ob¬ 
served or heard of. I would not advise 
such top-grafting on a commercial scale. 
Washington, D. C. wm. a. taylor. 
I once saw pear successfully grafted 
on apple. I have occasionally heard of 
other cases, both of apple on pear and 
pear on apple, showing that it is pos¬ 
sible. It is evidently very difficult, how¬ 
ever, and so seldom successful as to 
make it quite out of the question for 
practical purposes. f. a. waugh. 
Massachusetts. 
I have never seen apple grafted upon 
pear, but have seen pear upon apple. In 
this case the pear rapidly overgrows the 
apple, and dies or breaks off for lack of 
sufficient support. . I would expect that 
apple upon pear would do somewhat 
better, yet the affinity of the two is so 
weak that I would not expect profitable 
results in a commercial orchard so 
treated. t. v. munson. 
Texas. 
The question of grafting the apple on 
pear, or pear on apple, is somewhat like 
the question of inter-pollination. It is 
one of affinities. Trees have likes and 
dislikes just as people have, although 
the likes may be due to widely different 
causes. The apple, speaking broadly, 
will “work” upon the pear, either root or 
top, and I have in mind a Flemish 
Beauty pear which was top-worked on 
Fameuse apple 25 years ago and subse¬ 
quently bore fruit quite regularly for 
several years. The union was not a 
happy one. The stock outgrew the scion 
and finally the top died. Some years 
ago, in root-grafting pears, we ran out of 
pear stocks and used apple stocks for 
pear scions. We had a fair stand of nur¬ 
sery trees but the growth was not 
strong. These were piece root-grafted, 
so in time the tree would get upon its 
own roots. I would not like to venture 
grafting apples on pears. The apple 
would surely outgrow the stock and be¬ 
come top-heavy. The union would not 
make a long-lived tree. joiin oraig. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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