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Growing side by side, on the same tree, you 

 may have summer apples and winter apples, sweet 

 apples and sour, green varieties and red varie- 

 ties. And all this without any necessity for ex- 

 perimentation on your part. You need have no 

 knowledge of plant breeding except an under- 

 standing of the simple technique of grafting. 



The professional experimenters have supplied 

 the material; you have but to avail yourself of 

 the results of their work. 



Of course, if you wish to go a step farther there 

 are inviting fields that you may enter. With the 

 materials furnished by a single old apple tree you 

 may become a plant developer. You may plant 

 the seed of any choice apple purchased in the 

 market and from the seedlings you will develop 

 an interesting variety of fruits, some of which 

 may seem to you better than any existing 

 varieties. 



We have already caught glimpses, in the out- 

 lines of the work already given, of the possibili- 

 ties of the development of various orchard fruits 

 as to size and flavor and other desirable qualities. 



If you desire to try your hand at similar im- 

 provement either of the fruit now growing on 

 your ungrafted trees, or of that growing on cions 

 of improved varieties, it will require only reason- 

 able attention to the principles already outlined 



