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origin. We have fruited more than one thousand seedlings, apple and 

 Pyrus Baccata crab. Much of this work was for the purpose of testing 

 the value of stock upon which to grow apples. We have crossed the 

 little Baccata apple, which is not as large as a cherry, with most of 

 the well known apples, and obtained some as large as the Wealthy. 

 Some of these crossed with high-flavored apples give small crabs of 

 great beauty and quality. One of these here is a sweet one a little larger 

 than a silver dollar. We call this Economy crab, because it is always 

 fair and free from worms, is cooked whole for sweet-pickle, canning or 

 preserving. It is as firm as the Golden Russet pear, and as good as a 

 pear. Every family would need ten or fifteen bushels put up for 

 winter, and the trees can be planted by the fence side in entire neglect, 

 and grow them by wagon loads for even pigs and cattle. 



The greatest power in breeding is mind over mind. The mind of 

 the older and stronger over the weaker and undeveloped. With all 

 flowers, fruits, animals, or human beings, mind rules the existence 

 from before birth till after death. To create we must be educated in 

 our own mind to know what we want before we can expect success in 

 calling upon nature's laws in breeding. 



The human being should be bred so as to attain the happiest, most 

 useful and highest spiritual existence possible, under the reliable, 

 divine environment and man's erroneous judgments. 



The individual has many wants to be supplied, as he journeys 

 through life, more varied than he can attend to himself. He needs the 

 assistance of others, therefore, he should be eduacted in the proficient 

 production of something that will supply the wants of others in return 

 for what he receives. Animals, fruits and flowers need the same 

 education. To successfully educate in breeding new beings, we must 

 understand their main mental characteristics. These are the same in 

 all living things, but in the plants and less emotional orders our human 

 mind is not often intelligent enough to penetrate and perceive the 

 beautiful individuality of some of our apparently inert friends. 



Justice prevails in human beings and the Divine Power approves 

 of it by allowing the most just peoples to rule. Now, if our horses 

 did not have a sense of justice the same as man, we could not ride 

 behind them in safety; they know well enough the power of their 

 heels, and that we are behind them. In the trees and flowers we edu- 

 cate a sense of justice, and they give us beauty and nourishment in 

 place of poison. So closely virtue and vice blend that it is hard to know 

 where one leaves off and the other begins. All life has a tug of war 

 across the line. Even plants commit crimes and are immoral. We 

 have prototype of the tenderloin woman in the Wild Goose Plum, who 



