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bear any fruit to speak of until 1900, when they bore about seven 

 bushels apiece. This was the first year that we had bees enough 

 to do any good in carrying pollen. 



The nearest bearing tree was forty-five feet away. In the same 

 plat there is one Martha tree set in the spring of 1892 that has been 

 bearing a fair crop for four years. There is an old Early Strawberry 

 tree twenty feet east of this tree that bears every year. 



view in Mr. Ha/.leton's Orchard in Plat No. 2. 



