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stock, for there is no 'luck' about it. If there 

 is any risk about operations of this sort, it is 

 because of lack of business capacity and industry. 

 To take a neglected orchard and bring it back to 

 usefulness does not require much capital except 

 in brain and muscle, but it is an achievement 

 worth while." 



An achievement worth while, the renovation of 

 an old orchard, or even the rejuvenation of a 

 single tree, certainly is. I can gauge something 

 of the growing recognition of this fact from the 

 ever-increasing number of letters that come to 

 me from all parts of the world asking my opinion 

 or advice as to the possibility of restoration to 

 usefulness of trees that their owners not long 

 since regarded as worthless. 



And I am usually able to assure the ques- 

 tioners with a good deal of confidence that if they 

 go about it in the right way they will not merely 

 restore trees to their former level of productivity, 

 but may make them producers of fruit in such 

 abundance and of such quality as quite to out- 

 class their original record. 



We need not here enter into the details as to 

 the exact methods of operation through which 

 such restoration and rejuvenation of old orchard 

 trees may be brought about. Such details can be 

 given to better advantage in the chapters that 



