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place, and, in the second place, you must take 

 some interest, some pride, and some pleasure 

 in it. 



A man who takes no pride nor pleasure in 

 fruit growing or in farming ought not to be a 

 farmer. If his work is pain and drudgery he 

 might as well be a galley-slave outright. The 

 result is the same, and the responsibility is less. 



Now, the man who enjoys fruit growing, 

 and who expects to make a success of it, must 

 study varieties. He ought to study them 

 thoroughly and systematically. And the 

 systematic study of varieties of fruits is sys- 

 tematic pomology. 



Systematic pomology has been severely 

 neglected in North America during the last 

 thirty to forty years, quite to the detriment 

 of the business of fruit growing. The two 

 Downings, Dr. John A. Warder, John J. 

 Thomas, Marshall P. Wilder, and most of the 

 other men whose names shine so gloriously 

 out of our horticultural past, were all sys- 

 tematic pomologists. Above everything else 

 they studied varieties, and on their work in 

 that systematic study were the foundations 

 of our pomology laid. 



Then came a period of development along 



