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the tree, the center stem as a leader, is to my mind a perfect tree. 

 Whole root, or piece, long root or short root, has nothing to do 

 with the life or vigor or health or productiveness of the tree. It 

 all depends on the kind of stock and kind of scion we use. Even 

 double working is often a great advantage, because you then get 

 a root of known hardiness. The tree which roots from its own 

 scion is much better than one having a seedling root. 



Most of our best varieties are of eastern origin, and you can 

 easily make your selection in good hearty varieties of the best 

 quality. Be careful not to plant those varieties, which not being 

 adapted to your location, lose most of the qualities they do possess 

 in their own home. Adaptability is the important feature to be 

 always kept in mind. For instance, do not plant the Ben Davis 

 here in the north any more than we of the south should plant the 

 Rhode Island Greening. Use only those varieties of a known value 

 in a commercial way. If you know some of the newer varieties 

 doing well, use them sparingly. Beware of new varieties with 

 great names, old varieties under new names, varieties far removed 

 from your location as to soil and climate, varieties which claim to 

 be the best for every\vhere, because there is no such apple. — Col- 

 man's Rural World. 



wisdom is the knowledge of what Is best to do next, skill is showing how to do, and 

 virtue doing It. 



— President Jordan. 



O Earth! thou hast not any wind that blows 



Which is not music; every weed of thine, 

 Pressed rightly, flows in aromatic wine; 



And every bumble hedgerow flower that doth grow. 

 And every little brown bird that doth sing 



Hath something greater than itself, and bears 

 A living word to every living thing ; 



Though it may bear the message unawares. 



All shapes and sounds have something which is not 



Of them. A spirit broods amid the grass, 

 Vague outlines of the everlasting thought 



Lie in the melting shadows as they pass. 

 The touch of an eternal presence thrills 

 The fringes of the sunsets and the hills. 



—Richard Realf . 



The fact none the less remains, that it is to his somewimt 

 bigoted florist, to his somewhat frenzied horticulturist that we 

 owe our more exquisite flowerbeds, our more varied, more abundant, 



