Show vegetative propagation used for new va varieties r now new commercial varieties of bl faults may be obtained by tile vegetative propagation of what ts to known as hild bud sports As applied to fruit trees tills this terra refers to brandies branches wit which IC it f for r no no apparent reason benr bear fruit dif different Terent in sloe size shape or color or are different in some other respect from tile the rest of tile tipe such stich bud sports are fairly common and when propagated by top grafting remain true to type according to horticultural ti experts at the michigan experimental station over of those variations have been under ob ions for several years oy members of tile lie horticultural tarr staff of tant station and are being put to tests to see whether they will transmit their charach characteristics erl sties when propagated tat ively although sufficient clent time birne lias has not elapsed to prove that all of the tha sports under test teat will breed true to type some at least are known to have tilts tills characteristic most blost of the bud sports which appear on the fruit trees are Infer inferior lor to the parent tree but some few are superior and it Is to these that we vve may look its as a source of new commercial varieties |