STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 309 



PARAGRAPHS FROM C. A. GREEN. 



UNCERTAINTIES. 



The astonishing quantity of fruit a community, whether rich or 

 poor, can be educated to buy and eat. 



Whether new varieties of fruit approaching the ideal in one di- 

 rection tend to weakness or defects in another. 



Whether the fruit or the seed is the primary object of nature. 

 The protection, development, and dissemination of the seeds would 

 -appear to be the primary object, the edible qualities aiding in the 

 distribution of the seeds. 



The cause of occasional late strawberry blossoms being pistillate 

 on hermaphrodite plants. Where strawberries do not perfect all 

 their fruit this may often be found to be the cause. 



The cause of the occasional destruction of fruit germs after 

 blossoming, in the apple and pear. 



Why seedlings are apt to succeed best where they originate. 

 We might suppose the survival of the fittest a cause. If one had 

 sown eastern apple seed in Dakota and one survived, it might be 

 expected to be the hardiest that germinated. If we had sown apple 

 seed produced from Dakota trees we should have hoped to have been 

 more successful, expecting that the Dakota grown seed would inherit 

 and tend to perpetuate characteristics produced by their parent's 

 struggling with the great severity of the climate. Professor Beal 

 has shown how the vital forces of trees are thrown to the points 

 bearing the greatest strain or hardship, citing the strength of 

 branches that buffet every wind. This accidental characteristic 

 might be utilized in producing hardier varieties. 



CERTAINTIES. 



That our occupation is healthful not only to us who pursue it, 

 but in its effects on those who consume our product. Fruit grow- 

 ers do more to bankrupt the grave-digger than doctors. 



If we find birds no larger than our thumb struggling with de- 

 structive worms in our nurseries we need no prophet to assure us 

 that they are friends as well as our morning and evening 

 serenaders. 



