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operations, and try to persuade them to stay out even if every- 

 body else went into such deals. 



After all, however, the decision on this and similar matters 

 must rest with the individual largely. Experience has demon- 

 strated that it is a losing game. It has been exposed. Let the 

 men who can keep their heads, and who see a loss in every deal, 

 step aside and permit the other fellow to swallow it all. If the 

 clearer and wiser heads will but do this for their own protection, 

 a revolution will be inaugurated which in one season will set up a 

 new standard and wiser methods, and pave the way for profit 

 rather than loss. — B. in Fruit Trade Journal. 



MOST WONDERFUL TREE IN COUNTRY. 



(Special Oorrespondence of American Fruits, by Felix J. Koch.) 



Out in the gardens of one of the famous Riverside ( Calif or- 

 riia) hotels there stands what is without a doubt the most wonder- 

 ful tree in the United States, if not in the world, judging from the 

 produce therefrom. 



The tree is an orange, one of the two brought by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture from Bahia, Brazil, in 1874. From it, by the 

 process of budding, have descended all the naval oranges of Cali- 

 fornia. In other words, this tree, which is known as the Wash- 

 ington naval orange, was the father of all the naval orchards in 

 the state, and the source of the wealth of many golden mines, in ad- 

 dition to having given work to hundreds of thousands of men, 

 women and children, and enough freight to block great railroad 

 systems. Whole towns and cities have been built by the yield of 

 this tree, so that never has there been such a miracle-plant since 

 Yydrasil, in the Scandinavian myth, spread its branches over the 

 earth far enough to drop the golden fruit in every mart on the con- 

 tinent. 



When the tree was transplanted to its present site, within an 

 iron grating in the hotel grounds. President Roosevelt was at the 

 ceremony. Its first fruit thereafter was, in consequence, sent to 

 him, and his letter, acknowledging receipt, is carefully preserved 

 close by, together with a photograph of the re-planting of a tree, 

 than which there is none more famous, unless it be the one from 

 which Adam and Eve ate the apple. 



Even today the little tree hangs heavy with fruit. 



