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suited to thy climate and which would prove an experience to thee 
that would be grievous to bear and, perchance, cause thee to break 
the third commandment given by Moses to hispeople. By doing as 
I have commanded thou mayst be filled with horticultural knowl- 
edge and wisdom and be found willing to impart the same to thy 
fellows, and then thou wilt be called wise and good hearted; and by 
planting a few good trees each year thou wilt not only have apples 
for thine own use but have them to give to the unbelievers in apple 
growing. 
V. Thou shalt not select and plant the apple as the favorite fruit 
for thyself and thy wife, thy children, thy man servant or thy maid 
servant or for the stranger sojourning within thy house, and select 
thy best site and the best varieties, and then suffer thy orchard to be 
neglected and grow up to weeds and briars or become the abode of 
thine or thy neighbor’s horses and cattle or allow thy sheep to 
gnaw the bark off the trees or the swine to break the roots asunder, 
for, verily, I say, this will cause damage, loss and disappointment to 
thee and thy household; but, on the other hand, thou must enter 
into the congregations of the horticulturists and ask questions 
one of another and learn the best and most approved way to culti- 
vate and protect thy trees, in order to have them grow and bear 
fruit,even fifty and one hundred fold. Thou must be willing to 
learn of thy fellows and not be a stiff-necked people, saying thou 
dwellest in a land abounding with milk and honey, and thinking 
there is no need of apples for food; for without them the health of 
thyselves and thy families will be impaired, and thy days not reach 
three score and ten years; but heed what is said in this command- 
ment and set a few trees each year, and thou wilt raise apples in 
abundance. 
VI. Thou must cultivate and prune thy trees well in the early 
part of the season, rising up with the birds in the morning so that 
thy work will be done before the heat of the day oppresses thee. and 
ever remember the commandment given to the children of Israel to 
do the work in thy orchard in six days and rest on the seventh, and 
thou wilt find thy orchard a much better place to rest on the Sab- 
bath, where thou canst hold sweet communion with nature’s God, 
and admire thy growing trees and plants, than to rest on the banks 
of some stream trying to murder the innocent fish or in the fields 
or woods shooting for sport helpless birds or looking on at a game 
of base ball. In sojourning among thy trees on the Sabbath, look- 
ing at the growing or eating the ripe fruit, thy thoughts will wander 
back to pleasant hours spent with those whose counsels and efforts 
furnished thee with many of the trees in thy orchard. These to 
thee, if thou hast been a student of horticulture, will be sweet 
recollections that come only through the medium of growing 
apples by planting some good trees every year. 
VII. Thou shouldst honor those that hold meetings and sit in 
council for thy benefit, and ever remember that to have an abun- 
dance of apples for thy family thou must follow the rules already 
laid down, and, in addition, thou must not plant all thy trees in one 
season, thereby getting more on thy hands than can be properly 
