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PLANTING AND FEEDING THE OKGlIAUl). 



II. W. COLLINGWOOD, NEW YORK. 



1 supitose if out' would lake this crowd b:u-lc to New Jersey it would 

 uiake a fair lookiug Jersey crowd. I dou't kuow whether that is a com- 

 pliuK'Ut for ludiaua. or New Jersey. The Amerieau citizeus have the 

 same earuiarks the world over, aud every crowd is very much alike; 

 Now, I waut to say before I begin talkiug here today, that it seems^ 

 a little strange to me that you should have invited a Jerseyman to 

 come here and talk about planting an orchard. It is true that I raise 

 fruit trees, but I am a fruit grower in a modest way. There are many 

 men here today older than I am, Avho have had a fair knowledge aud ex- 

 perience in planting an orchard, and perhaps know a great deal more about 

 it tliau I. You are here on this soil of the Great West, and no doubt are 

 proud of your lands, but 1 am none the less i)roud of my farm in the East. 

 I must sa}-, friends, that I feel my inability to tell you very much about 

 planting an orchard, and I want to say this to begin with. My friend, 

 jMr. Hale, came here once upon a time, and thought he would tell you 

 things about the Ben Davis apple, and he afterwards told me that you 

 folks base balled him out. I am not going to pretend to know it all; I am 

 simply going to try to tell you what I am doing. I do not mean to say 

 that you should do these things just as I am doing them, because it may 

 be that your conditions will not warrant your doing this. I am going to 

 talk to you this afternoon in this offhand, man to man way, about what 

 we are doing in the East, what we think is riglit in regard to planting and 

 caring for an orchard, etc. ' Now, it is quite likely that you will want to 

 ask me some questions as we go along, and I want to state to you frankly 

 just the situation, so that there will be no misunderstanding. I do not 

 hear very well, and perhaps will not hear your question. If I do not stop 

 and answer a question when it is asked it is not because I am afraid of it, 

 for I am not afraid of anything I can hear. If I do not answer you it is 

 simply because I did not catch it, and I Avill ask you to write out the 

 questions and hand them to the President here, and he will act as the 

 middleman. This reminds me of a little story. 



When 1 was a small boy I was brought up on Cape Cod. Now this is 

 the l)est place on earth to get away from, and the poorest place to stay. 

 I well remember when I was a little fellow that there was one old fellow 

 in tlic neighborhood tliat had a cider mill. I don't drink cider now. This 

 old fellow was one of those dosetisted people, and he told three of us boys 

 that if we would pick up enough seedling apples fnyn under the trees 

 along the road to (ill a Itarrel, and then put them in the liop[)er, he woidd 



