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there is more seed than juice and pulp 

 inside the black-skinned berries. I did 

 not stop to make a calculation as to 

 the number of cherry stones matured 

 ready for planting by this one tree. 

 That would not only have been the 

 task of hours, but I should even then 

 have been compelled to estimate the 

 number that had already been ac- 

 counted for via the bird route. It is 

 safe to say that there were enough to 

 plant several acres to wild cherries, if 

 any orchardist cared to take up their 

 culture. Unfortunately, from the wild 

 cherry point of view, comparatively 

 few of the stones ever live to respond 

 to the tender solicitations of spring- 

 time. 



Civilized man does not approve of 

 Nature's prodigality in this business, 

 and if he will only carry his avowed 

 policy of repression far enough the 

 other forms of earth life will doubtless 

 be jolly glad of it. 



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