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ask me what kinds you should grow, why take the kinds for the 

 present that you can sell in the market, but all the time be trying 

 to produce something that is a great deal better. Quality will 

 pay in the end if it doesn't just at present. 



Now in regard to varieties of fruit in the setting out of an 

 orchard. I want to tell you something that I am very much 

 interested in and something that is interesting lots of other 

 people, and that is this. You want to know the reason why 

 there is so much difference in the Baldwins, why there is so 

 much difference in dift'erent kinds of apples. The original 

 Baldwin originated in Essex county between Newburyport and 

 Boston, and everything of the Baldwin kind came from that 

 original tree. As nurseries developed in the Western States, 

 the Baldwin was carried west and further west, and by and by 

 you people in the states of Maine and Massachusetts and New 

 Hampshire want Baldwin apples and you send out there and buy 

 them, and they come back here a little different kind of Baldwin 

 from the original Baldwin. Why? Because they have become 

 acclimated out there. Let me say to you that the Roxbury Rus- 

 set taken the other side of the Mississippi river will grow very 

 large and will be a fine apple. Suppose some of you should be 

 struck on that apple and should send out there for scions — do 

 you think you are going to have the original Roxbury Russet? 

 Not by a good deal. That is just the trouble with your Baldwin 

 apples and every other kind of apples; you shift the location, 

 and you bring them back, and you have got something else. 

 Now I went down to Rhode Island to talk the fruit question one 

 night. x\s I was talking along, using a man's orchard for an illus- 

 tration of three different kinds of planting, — one before he was 

 born, and another lot that he had set out thirty years before, and 

 only set them twenty feet apart and they were so close together 

 that a spear of grass wouldn't grow under them — he never was 

 troubled with grass or weeds growing under those trees — then 

 a new orchard that had been set out about seven years that was 

 bearing about three barrels of apples to a tree, — and he stopped 

 me right in the meeting and said "Friend Hixon," — he is a 

 Quaker — "It is all right for thee to talk the way thee is talking, 

 but I would give more for the Baldwins and the Rhode Island 

 Greenings on those old trees that I know to be eighty-five years 

 old than I would all of these new trees I have got in these lower 



