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upon large stocks early in spring, as upon the apple, and buds may be 
kept upon ice for use in early summer. Pears are dwarfed by budding 
them upon tbe quince. The Angers quince is the best stock. The 
pear can also be grown upon the apple, thorn and Mountain ash. 
Plums are worked in various ways, but ordinary shield-budding is 
usually employed in late summer or early fall, as for peaches and 
cherries. In the North and East the common plum is usually worked 
upon stocks of the same species. The Horse plum is a common stock. 
St. Julien and Black Damas are French stocks in common use. The 
Myrobolan is much used in California for standards, but in the East it 
makes dwarf trees. Plums are sometimes worked upon peach, almond 
and apricot stocks, according to locality. Japanese plums are worked 
upon peach, common plum or natives, preferably Marianna. Prunus 
Simoni works upon peach, common plum, Myrobolan and Marianna. 
The peach is perhaps the easiest to propagate of all northern fruit 
trees. Peach trees are always shield-budded. Grafting can be done, 
but as budding is so easily performed, there is no occasion for it. The 
peach shoots are so pithy that in making scions it is well to leave a 
portion of the old wood upon the lower end to give the scion strength. 
Peaches are nearly always worked upon peaches in this country. 
Plums are occasionally employed for damp and strong soils. Myro¬ 
bolan is sometimes used, but it cannot be recommended. All plums 
dwarf the peach more or less. The hard-shell almond is a good stock 
for very light and dry soils. The Peen-to and similar peaches are 
worked upon common peach stocks. 
Apple stocks are either grafted or budded. Root-grafting is the most 
common, especially in the West where long scions are used in order to 
secure own-rooted trees. Budding is gaining in favor eastward and 
southward. It is performed during August and early September in 
the northern states, or may be begun on strong stocks in July by using 
buds which have been kept on ice. Stocks should be strong enough to 
be budded the year they are transplanted. Stocks which cannot be 
worked until the second year are unprofitable. 
IRecent [Publications. 
An attractive feature of the Gardeners’ Magazine of London is the 
half-tone supplement describing one of the English mansions, with 
views of the spacious grounds. 
The twenty-seventh annual report of the Fruit Growers’ Association 
of Toronto, has been issued. In it is a large amount of interesting in¬ 
formation concerning the horticultural industry in the Dominion. 
Murray Pettit, of Winona, is president; W. E. Wellington, of Toronto, 
vice-president, and L. Woolverton, of Grimsby, is secretary. 
W, C. Fitzsimmons has retired from the editorial department of the 
California Fruit Grower. Brainerd N. Rowley is editor and publisher. 
The journal has introduced two valuable new departments, “Horti¬ 
culture,” which is in the charge of Leonard Coates, the well-known 
nurseryman of Napa, Cala., and “Viticulture,” in the charge of George 
Husmann, author of “American Grape Growing and Wine Making.” 
In a letter to us Professor Van Deman expresses a little dissatisfaction 
with what we said in our last issue of the book on “ Nut Culture.” 
This is what he says : “ You have done me a little more than justice 
in what you recently said about my connection with the preparation 
of the book on * 1 Nut Culture in the United States.’ My faithful clerk, 
W. P. Corsa, did the greater part of the writing of the text, and 
Assistant Pomologist W. A. Taylor did considerable work on it, while 
I did much less of the detail work than either. However, it was done 
after my plan and under my personal direction almost to completion 
before my term of office ceased.” 
From the south seas, 12,000 miles away, comes the catalogue of 
I). Hay & Son’s Montpelier Nurseries, at Auckland, New Zealand. It 
is dated April 1, 1896, and the proprietors say: “Anticipating the 
busy planting season of the winter of 1896. we take pleasure in tender¬ 
ing you our first ' fall ’ catalogue and solicit your careful perusal of 
its pages. We have designated this a fall catalogue for want of a 
better term, and although it is a new name in this country yet it is self- 
explaining. Briefly, it means that any item enumerated in these pages 
can be ordered shipped, and planted during the next few months. But 
this issue is also a complete novelty list, and contains the largest col¬ 
lection of new varieties of fruit-bearing plants and flowers that has ever 
been offered by a single firm in the history of the nursery business in 
these colonies. Japanese plums have by their startling merit already 
made our name famous, but we hail tbe advent, of our latest novelties 
‘Wickson,’ ‘Giant,’ ‘Gold,’ ‘Splendor,’ and ‘Gold Dust, as the be¬ 
ginning of an era more remarkable and triumphant than even that 
which records the achievements of ’ Burbank,’ ‘ Botan,’ ‘ Satsuma,’ and 
‘Fertility.’” These nurseries were established in 1855 and are the 
most prominent in the Orient. 
A new edition of “ American Grape Growing and Wine Making” by 
George Husmann, has been issued. So great have been the improve¬ 
ments in the way of new varieties in pruning and training, in market¬ 
ing and in combating insects and fungi injurious to the grape, that 
after a period of barely a dozen years, since the last edition of this 
work appeared, it was found necessary entirely to revise and largely 
rewrite it in order to keep abreast with the times. This new edition is 
practically almost an entirely new work. The complete management 
of the grape in the garden as well as in the most extensive vineyards, 
from the planting of the vine to the harvesting of the fruit, is given in 
detail, according to what are now considered the best methods. As 
the vast extent of our country and its varying conditions of soil and 
climate make it impossible to gave directions suitable for all sections, 
the author has called to his aid the most prominent authorities and 
most experienced vineyardists in all the various grape districts of the 
United States. The second part of the work is entirely devoted to 
these locality reports, which are of inestimable value to the grape 
growers living within the respective areas. The chapters on wine 
making form a complete manual in themselves, describing all the 
various details of this steadily increasing industry. As the author is 
one of the most experienced wine makers in America and a recognized 
authority on the subject, this part alone makes the volume indispens¬ 
able to all engaged in this industry. In order to make the work 
national in its scope, a considerable part is devoted to grape growing 
and wine making in California, a subject of which the author has made 
a specialty for the past 15 years. $1.50. New York: The Orange 
Judd Co. 
One of the most valuable handbooks which the nurseryman, florist 
or seedsman can possess is “ The American Florist Company’s Direc¬ 
tory and Reference Book.” The edition for 1896 is now ready. Within 
its 335 pages is contained a large amount of information of practical 
value. The new edition is complete in its many details. The princi¬ 
pal feature is the trade list of nurserymen, florists and seedsmen of the 
United States and Canada, which occupies 115 pages in double column. 
Concerning this list the publishers say: “We have spared no labor 
and expense to secure and promptly enter in our list all the changes 
that have occured since the compilation of our last edition. And to 
this end we make daily notes of changes as they occur between the 
issues of our book. We have also secured entire new lists from every 
city and town represented in the book, in many cases obtaining dupli¬ 
cate lists from different souices for the purpose of comparison and 
verification.” Special mention should be made of the reference lists of 
roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and cannas which are probably the 
most comprehensive and useful lists published. The value of this 
feature \fill be appreciated at once. Changes in these lists have been 
numerous and a thoroughly revised and up to date directory will be 
welcomed. In addition to the features mentioned, the book contains a 
list of trade organizations; floriculture, nursery and seed growing 
statistics; the names of firms that issue catalogues; cemeteries, park 
superintendents, the botanical gardens of the United States, seasonable 
hints, leading horticultural societies that give exhibitions in which 
ornamental horticulture is a prominent feature, outline sketches of the 
Society of American Florists, American Carnation Society, American 
Association of Nurserymen, Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
Florists’ Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and ex¬ 
press and postage rates. $2. Chicago: The American Fi,grist 
Company. 
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