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Show " Kjedling Varltlej of Fruit. The dependence on nurseries rather tht; a on home-grown fruits diminishes tho chance for finding new and valuable valua-ble seedling varieties. Occasionally a graft or a bud falls, and the natural sprout taking its place is supposed lo be the improved variety til it gets into bearing. Unless thi.se instances arc wrongly reported, a larsror proportion propor-tion of seeding fruit has considerable more value than is often thought. The proportion would be still larger if s.eds from only the best of fruit grown in years favorable for its 'highest excellence ex-cellence wore used to? raising nursery stock. The plan of many nurserymen is, however, to get apple seeds from the refuse pomace, in which only small nnd inferior fruit is used for grinding, in this way they claim to get uiore vigorous Btocks, but it is at the expense ex-pense of fruit. It is likely n!so that these stocks when gr-.'tad nra longer in coming Into bsnring thai slocks raised from cultivate! fruit of fie highest high-est quality would be. |