QUICK POSSIBILITIES IN 
FRUIT IMPROVEMENT 
Speciric NEEDS, 
AND How To AccOMPLISH THEM 
HE old pear tree out there in the corner of 
your garden was perhaps planted by your 
father’s father. 
The twig you cut from it today may take root 
and become a thrifty tree that will bear fruit to 
gladden the hearts of your grandchildren long 
years after you are dead. And that possibility 
puts the tree on a very different footing as the 
friend and companion of man from that occupied 
even by the best-prized members of the company 
of forage plants and garden vegetables. 
When you work with fruit trees you are mak- 
ing permanent records. You are building on a 
rock. You are reaching out your hands to future 
generations, and erecting a monument that will 
remain as a testimonial to your foresight and 
wisdom long after you are gone. 
And doubtless this fact of the permanence of 
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