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The Importance of Seeing Correctly. 

 Three professional fruit-growers expressed 

 an opinion concerning the manner in which 

 sweet cherries are borne on the tree. The 

 first contended that the fruit grows from 

 side spurs on twigs which grew last fall. 

 The second was equally positive that it is 

 borne on short spurs which grow from the 

 point of junction between last year's wood 

 and the wood of the year previous. The 

 third supposed that cherries grow in pairs 

 from most of the buds on both last year's 

 and two years old wood. Each of these men 

 had grown cherries for at least a dozen years, 

 and yet neither of them knew this one of the 

 simplest facts connected with their daily la^- 

 bor, and which might be made apparent by a 

 few minutes' close observation. It is surpris- 

 ing that many of the commonest and most 

 interesting of e very-day phenomena, though 

 they lie right before the eyes of every man, 

 are never seen by the great majority of peo- 

 ple. Most persons are walking through a 

 wonderland with their eyes shut. The inter- 

 esting things detailed in these pages are but 

 a very few random leaves rudely torn from 

 the book of nature. The leaves that remain 



