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for granted that his own trees cannot be expected 

 to supply similar products. But in point of fact 

 it is well within the possibilities to produce good 

 orchard fruits wherever the trees exist that pro- 

 duce any fruit at all. Conditions of soil and 

 climate cannot, of course, be ignored. One can- 

 not grow oranges in Canada or grapefruit in 

 New England as yet. But if you have apple, 

 pear, plum, or cherry trees that bear fruit, it is 

 a matter of your own choice whether they shall 

 bear good fruit or bad. 



All that is necessary is that you should send 

 to some reputable nurseryman or orchardist and 

 secure cions of good variety for grafting your 

 trees. 



All apple trees are closely related, the culti- 

 vated varieties being without exception of mixed 

 strains. The same is true of pears and plums 

 and cherries. In each case you may graft on 

 your native stock cions of any variety of the same 

 species, or a dozen or a score of different vari- 

 eties, and, if the work is well done at the right 

 season, the new twigs will soon become a part of 

 the old tree as regards vitality and capacity for 

 growth and fruiting; but as we have learned 

 in earlier chapters they will retain their in- 

 herent hereditary tendencies as to quality of 

 fruit. 



