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Diadem Raspberry and the Glass' Plum, look at the number of letters 

 he would have to write, enquiring the price and sending the money, and 

 how many visits to the express office to receive them. Why, there are 

 lots of people who would rather pay for any of these fruits twice over 

 than write half the letters that would be necessary to procure them. 

 And then, you see, they might write to Mr. Dempsey for the Burnet 

 Orape, and he would perhaps inform them that he had placed it in 

 the hands of Mr. Lesslie for sale ; and so on, in what nineteen persons 

 out of t\^enty would consider an endless round of botheration. 



And still another difficulty presents itself in regard to introducing 

 some chance seedlings, which it is hoped the plan to be suggested 

 will remedy — It is this : It has happened, and probably will again, 

 that some of our greatest acquisitions are the result of chance, or have 

 been discovered through accident by persons who are not engaged in 

 the fruit or nursery business. The history of our choicest fruits tell 

 us that a great many of them have originated in this way, (the 

 Baldwin Apple for one) but history does not tell us how many equally 

 valuable may have been lost to the world, simply because the possessor 

 or finder had no interest in, or could reap no profit by, endeavoring to 

 make tliem known, until perhaps the death of the parent tree placed 

 it forever out of the reach of the fruit-loving community. The writer 

 believes himself to be at the present time in possession of a valuable 

 seedling, in regard to which he finds himself in a somewhat similar 

 position to that here described. In regard to all of which it may be 

 said, as was said before, there is something wanting; there is a motive 

 wanted to induce those who possess such rare acquisitions to make 

 them known and spread them abroad. , 



;N"ow comes the questions, How are we to remdfey some or all of 

 these evils ? How are we to stimulate the hybridizer — to make known 

 to the world what he has produced ? How to introduce and sell those 

 products to those who want them, and to encourage lucky possessors 

 of valuable chance seedlings to bring them forward and place them 

 on the market ? As a solution to all these queries, the following sug- 

 gestions are offered: 



That fruit patents be granted for a term of years at a trifling cost 

 to the patentee. 



That a patent fruit nursery be established, and all patented fruits 



