Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-04-25
From. the Americas Fdrmer.
CRAFT AND STOCK.


could h, we'll content to believe, # | could find
reasonable proof that trees hare determiadfe pc
rad # ctidence and that II graft taken from an
old ohe must die in the same age as the prrent
stock have not yet made the discovery hn"cV-
er and tho argument for this opinion, copied INTO
your valuable paper nj page 397 oi volume ~, Is
what logicians call non scqWtnr. or nm inference
not war, an,cd by the premises, If " all the new
kinds so remarkably healthy" are the offspring OF
the common apple and Siberian crab. as under
stand them be for then they are dybrfG, moi be
longing 10 the same species as the old varieties but
d,aeren, in their natures and having never been
IKE them ii necessarily follows that these mnies.
furnish no proof thai the others have ever changed
or dcter iorated
There are two other opinions in that essay On
the varieties of rKurr," in which can scarce
~ JON with The intcli cent author lie says, the
animal car have hut anc iathrr---fhe regc'hote
may hdr plurality Of fdtdfrS suspect II
would be hard 10 show such difference. II IS Il
belief among some breeders that Iups plgsofthe
same litter may have different fathers, but l
never heard of apup pig supposed 10 be the
off ,pring OF tir1 fathers" Why thrn should we
believe that ono seed of apple should be fecuhds
ted with the pollen from tro other trees IN
cline To think that the seed Is .ecundated at once
and by particle of pollen small us not 10 re-
/, any Just analogy between the seeds ot
plants and the eggs tmsccis OF OF iisies, some
light may be thrown this subject from that quar-
Ter The queen bee from once pairlns, lays tom
20 900 to 100 900 fertile eggs and single female
of several kinds of fishes, produces 1T ono time
more than one million OF eggs. The quantity ct
semen to mpregnatc one es must therefore b. al
most infinitely small and We can scarcely ina
CINE that any definite n-;lynabe quantity, Is too
small for the purpose.
The other opinion with which am not entirely
satisfied, is, tina, he root Of = grated ~ budded
tree TAKE The habits Of The Som The circumstance
50 frankly expressed that the ounce and the psiI-
disc apple are exceptions TO thus rule shows that
the subject deserves To hc more closely examined.
| The known effects of the raitcd mrnches on the
stock is not very great and wh"rs The graft has
been SCI a few feet from the ground, nothing Is
| more common then visible, and often u romarka-
bic dislencc in the size Of the trunk com ncncins
exactly II, that point. 10 hcn the branches have 50
| little control over the size of the stock, We ought
! least of all 20 EXPECT that they would give share
! and direction 10 the roots. Some veers ago, had
! a variety fthe domestic plum, remarkable for send
| ing up suckers iroH, its roots, Fur and WIDE ana
Tor want of better stocks, grated into them many
varieties of the plum, and about hall II dozen Kinds
N apricos On examining these however, can
not discover that til branches have restrained the
strange il they should, for this supposed control
would be wlthsood and resisted 10y the inst slront
thal appears. :"