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MY MODEL TREE. 



EDSON GAYLORD, NORA SPRINGS, lA. 



The writer of this article, a faint reproduction of whose form 

 appears at the foot of the ladder in the accompanying illustrations, — 

 exceedingly faint in one instance — has taken this way to forcibly 

 illustrate a principle involved in the successful growing of apples 

 in the Northwest. It is deduced from a personal experience of 

 fifty years on fourth, fifth, and sixth rate orchard sites, on a scale 

 of one to seven. His best' site ranges no higher than four. Back- 

 in the fifties he set seven hundred trees orrown on tender roots. 



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Mr. Edsoti Gaylord and his "model tree" — a late fall view. 



