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other orchards in the State, is that fruit-growing is intensely indi- 

 vidual. The prime factor is the man. 



But from the success of Mr. Hitchings the apple-grower must not 

 be led away from the general truth, that the individual problem 

 can be solved most often by the rational application of the laws of 

 nutrition and growth which plants generally follow. Applied to 

 the problem of growing apples in New York, the general law is, 

 that the apple, like other orchard, field and garden plants, responds 

 to cultivation. 



