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more than the man who has high headed trees does ; we simply 

 plan to have it nearer the ground. 



Question. Do you head back any? 



Prof. Sears. Yes, very severely. 



ABSTRACT OF LECTURE ON GLEANINGS FROM 

 ORCHARD SURVEY WORK IN NEW YORK. 



(Stereoptican Lecture.) 



Prof. John Craig, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I have very pleasant recollections of my last appearance 

 before this society and it is always a grateful surprise to me 

 when by any possible chance I am invited back to the same place 

 again. I find myself here tonight, however, and I shall 

 endeavor to tell you something — not from the book of personal 

 experience, as my colleague Prof. Sears did, but shall take a 

 leaf from the book of experience of the fruit growers them- 

 selves in New York state. 



I am just thinking what a fine thing it is for those young men 

 who are studying under Prof. Sears in Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, that they will be able to make occasional surrep- 

 titious visits to his orchards and come back and perhaps con-- 

 found his lecture-room advice by the results which are showing 

 themselves in his practice. Sometimes theory and practice don't 

 jibe, you know, and I can conceive of the time when it may be 

 very unfortunate for our friend having that demonstration of 

 his practical knowledge so near at hand. Now I must say that 

 I was wiser than he. I have been going into something of the 

 same kind, but in my greater wisdom — probably I am an older 

 man — I removed my scene of practical operation so far that it 

 will be quite impossible for my students to visit it and then 

 come back to twit me with failure to live up to the horticultural 

 doctrine which I have been dispensing from the lecture room 

 rostrum. I am just pointing out at the beginning what a funda- 

 mental mistake he has made. It is a little late, but that comes 

 from his not having consulted a more experienced man. He 



