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an apple, plum, orange or nut to each tree. What woudi be the result ? In 

 five staples VDnly in the United States alone the inexhaustible forces of 

 nature would produce annually without effort and without cost: 

 5,200,000 extra bushels of corn, 



15,000,000 extra bushels of wheat, 



20,000,000 extra bushels of oats, • 



1,500,000 extra bushels of barley, ' 



21,000,000 extra bushels of potatoes. 



But these vast possibilities are not alone for one year, or for our 

 own time or race, but are beneficent legacies for every man, woman or 

 child who shall ever inhabit the earth. And who can estimate the ele- 

 vating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their 

 graceful forms and bewitching shades and combinations for color and 

 exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously 

 felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously, and thus 

 with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains and flowers will the earth 

 be transformed and man's thoughts turned from the base destructive 

 forces into the nobler productive ones, which will lift him to higher planes 

 of action towards that happy day when man shall offer his brother man 

 not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruits and fairer flowers. 



Cultivation and care may help plants to do better work temporarily, 

 but by breeding, plants may be brought into existence which will do better 

 work always, in all places and for all time. Plants arc to be produced 

 which will perform their appointed work better, quicker and with the 

 utmost precision. 



Science sees better grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables all in new 

 forms, sizes, colors and flavors, with more nutrients and less waste, and 

 with every injurious and poisonous quality eliminated, and with power to 

 resist sun, wind, rain, frost and destructive fungus and insect pests; 

 fruits without stones, seeds or spines ; better fibre, coffee, tea, spice, rulj- 

 ber, oil, paper and timber trees, and sugar, starch, color and perfume 

 plants. Every one of these and ten thousand more are within the reach 

 of the most ordinary skill in plant breeding. 



Fellow plant breeders, this is our work. On us now rests one of 

 the next great world movements ; the guidance of the creative forces is 

 in our hands. — American Gardening. 



GROWING BLACK WALNUT TREES. 



Walnut trees are propagated by seeds. The seed of the walnut tree 

 is the nut we eat. To start a grove of walnuts the seeds should be 

 gathered soon after dropping and planted the same fall before drying 



