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be the same as the graft or shoot. The little boy took 

 great delight in watching the grafts grow, and after the 

 third summer, when the grafted limbs began to bear, and 

 the round juicy Baldwins ripened, while the ungrafted 



Grafting fruit trees. 



branches were filled with poor fruit, young Luther decided 

 that grafting was surely of much use. 



The harvest time was a joyous season when the Williams, 

 Gilliflower, Baldwin, Greening, and Russet were each, in 

 its turn, gathered in great baskets and stored in bins and 

 barrels for winter's use, making the cellar rich with their 

 fragrance. 



