. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ^^ INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK ON THE OllAFT. I N F L U E N r E 0 F I HE STOCK OX Til !•: (i U A F T. BY U. BUIbT, rillLADELlUIA. URELY, the study of horlicultnre in its various do-tails, is one of the most beautiful that the mind ofcan be engaged upon. I do not allude to thatelfervesccnt study given to it by nurserymenVklio are ever on the streteli for ]»oiinds, shil-lings, and ])enec, but to that cool, deliberate^ study of a student—that shutting out of every-1 thing except the scientific results of an inqiur-v^ ing, cool, deliberate
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ^^ INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK ON THE OllAFT. I N F L U E N r E 0 F I HE STOCK OX Til !•: (i U A F T. BY U. BUIbT, rillLADELlUIA. URELY, the study of horlicultnre in its various do-tails, is one of the most beautiful that the mind ofcan be engaged upon. I do not allude to thatelfervesccnt study given to it by nurserymenVklio are ever on the streteli for ]»oiinds, shil-lings, and ])enec, but to that cool, deliberate^ study of a student—that shutting out of every-1 thing except the scientific results of an inqiur-v^ ing, cool, deliberate mind. A few years ago,it was for tlie pear tlie quince stock only, andthen the next move was the Angers Quince,the Pyramidal Quince, &c. Now, in 1857, tliereappears a reaction, and all pears must be on pearstock. We are strange in our ideas, few reallythinking and acting on their own pure opinion ;they take for granted that others are right. About fiveyears ago, in an article for one of our periodicals (by my-self), I advanced the opinion that the p
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