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cutting-grown, grafted or budded, provided the right stock is used, but it is absolutely essential that they be 
upon a stock that is adapted. 
Of the oriental varieties cultivated for their fruit, the Le Conte is by all odds the best stock. The 
so-called “Japan Pear,” a native species growing wild in that country, where it has been used for several 
centuries as a Pear stock, is equally as good as the Le Conte for this purpose. These two stocks, the Le Conte 
and Japan Pear, are /ar excellence the stocks for this region ; furthermore, they are the only stocks that 
succeed at all here. This point cannot be emphasized too strongly, as a failure to consider it means failure 
in growing Pears. These two stocks are best for the oriental varieties, as well as for other kinds. For 
instance, the Kieffer on the Le Conte or Japan Pear is as much better than the Kiefferon its own roots as the 
Kieffer on its own roots is better than the Kieffer on the “seedlings” of the common Pear in general use. 
Not only are the Le Conte and Japan stocks the only stocks that thrive in this lower latitude, but they 
are good stocks, perhaps the best, throughout the country. 
Hachiya (Japanese Persimmon). Natural size. (See page 22.) 
Kaki. 
{Jaran Persimmon.) 
The Kaki, or Japan Persimmon, is no longeron trial, but must henceforth be placed among leading fruits 
of the cotton belt, especially well adapted to the coast region. Grafted on our native Persimmon, it seems 
perfectly at home The tree is vigorous, prolific, and has few enemies. For market, this delicious fruit has 
the merit of shipping well and keeping long. It requires some experience to determine when the fruit has 
reached the proper stage to be marketed, and this varies with the different varieties. The fact that it has 
often been offered when immature and inedible has made purchasers in some markets reluctant to take hold 
of it. But wherever it is known it meets ready sale ; and when placed upon the market ripe it is easily intro¬ 
duced, and speedily becomes a prime favorite 
As a Money Crop. We quote from the proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society. In 1893, 
President Dudley W. Adams said : “The first two years, when I had the market practically to myself, I got 
from $6 to Sio per box. This last year they ranged from S2.50 to $5. Excepting one year, my returns have 
