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CERTAIN ELEMENTS IN NURSERY PRACTICB 183
cxwt I’twltS : the character of the stocks must be one factor
in the program (page NO). IIere optms an important prospect
ill IlI11’sC1’)’
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The reit(ler will find the customary stocks mentioned under
the cliflwcnt entries in Part II (Nursery-List), but it may be
~11 to bring together a brief statement at this place.
Tht: almond is ~vork~d on seedlings of almond, peach, myrobalan
and I’r~mu,s
Ikwidiana.
plum,
The apple is grown on seedling stock of the same species, Pyrats M&s.
Jt is dwarfed 13~ working any variety on the Paradise or Doucin, which
aw cltvarf forms of the apple, grown from mound-layers. The seedling
stoc*k is gro\vn esttwivt4y in Kaiv,as at present. and is also imported from
I:rnnw.
Apri(*ot is grown on seedlings of apricot, peach, and several kinds of
p1um.
(_‘hwric~s are grown on mazzard storks, which is a half-wild form of thr
s\vwt c*lierry, Z’runlls flttilrm, and on mahalcb, which is a distinct speries
( 1’ r1il1l~s ,Ilrt/rtr~c~h) tllat clots not procluw cdiblc fruit. Sweet vherries
are suppos~~1 to cl0 \wst on mazzard and sour cherries on mahaleb, but
tllchy art’ lil;thl>* to JK* \\.orkt4 rather intlisc~rixninatel~.
(‘lwst n11ts, \~~llc~thc~l ;Irwriwn, Eurqwan or *Jal)an~‘st~, are mostly
\vorktA(l 011 rwti\x~ A~llcTi~~ilrl stocks. ‘1’1wee sptwiw of’ ( 'X4tilIl~i~ are involvc~d
htw.
Grapes iilp grown from vllttings. Tn regions where phylloxera renders
the groning of tlw wine grape (I-i/ix ~~IL.$Hw) impossible on its own wets,
the varictiw are grafted on American stocks, chiefly on I’. ~dpina (riparia).
Orange is \\.orktn(l 011 sour orange stock, rough lemon, grapefruit and
t rifoliat a, all rtqwwntil~g different, spcries and the t rifoliata now considercd
to Jw of il ciistilwt genus (Poncirus).
Yeavh is 111~hltvl on seedling pea& stocks, the seeds being obtained
mostly from run-wild trtw in the southern states.
Peilr is gro\vn WI stwfling stocks of the same species (I’yrus cornmu&)
importecl fro111 Fraliw ; also to some extent on American-grown seedlings
of Kieffer, and OII Am&ran-grown and imported stork of the oriental
sand pears (P~~TIIS,9f~rofinu, I-‘. ~o*vidta and perhaps others). The pear is _
clwtrfecl lqr l)llcltling it on Angers qIlince, which is mostly mound-layered.
14twn is grown t,~r stwlling pecan, and sometimes top-worked on establisht4
native trew.