DOUBLING THE PRODUCTIVENESS 
OF THE CHERRY 
More AND BETTER CHERRIES 
HEN I chance to see mention in the 
\ \V newspaper headings of the doings of 
New York’s celebrated Four Hundred 
I am sometimes reminded of the Four Hundred 
of Sebastopol. 
The particular Sebastopol that I have in mind 
is the place where my fruit farm is located, about 
seven miles from Santa Rosa. By the Four Hun- 
dred of Sebastopol I mean a very aristocratic 
colony, comprising four hundred families of pedi- 
greed cherries, that are colonized on a single big 
tree in my cherry orchard. 
I could speak only from vaguest hearsay as to 
the lineage of New York’s aristocratic coterie, but 
may claim to discuss the pedigrees of the Four 
Hundred of Sebastopol with final authority. And 
I can vouch for the blueness of blood, so to speak, 
of every one of them. 
[VotumME [V—Cuapter III] 
