Seedling Fruits

Categories: Fruit Growing

I have been growing seedlings from the pits of some extra fine peaches

and plums with a view to planting them. A man near San Jose advised me

that I would get good results, but since then I have met others who say

that the fruit trees that spring from planted seeds yield only poor

fruit.



It is the tendency of nearly all improved fruit to revert to wild types,

more or less, when grown from the seed. The chances are, then, that

nine-tenths or more of the seedlings which you grew for fruiting might

be worthless. A few might be as good as the fruit from which you took

the pits; possibly one might he better. For these reasons the growing of

fruit trees from pits and seeds is only used for the purpose of getting

a root from which a chosen variety may be gotten by budding and

grafting.