INCREASING THE PRODUC 



T1VENESS OF THE 



CHERRY 



MORE AND BETTER CHERRIES 



WHEN I chance to see mention in the 

 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 Hundred of Sebastopol I mean a 

 very aristocratic colony, comprising four hun- 

 dred families of pedigreed cherries, that are 

 colonized on a single big tree in the 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 the Gold Ridge farm at Se- 

 bastopol with final authority, and can vouch for 



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