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three ounces weight, and the growth continues at a rapid rate. 

 Where they will stop nobody knows. That apples will be gather- 

 ed at harvest weighing five or six ounces, I believe. Their luster 

 is astonishing. In fact, I have never seen their equal. The fruit 

 developing to-day, is incomparably finer than any on the place. 



" Suffice it to say, that results thus far realized by Mr. Cole in 

 orcharding, justifies the following copied from the Husbandman at 

 the conclusion of his address before the Farmer's Club at Elmira 

 a month ago. 



" ' I conclude my remarks by saying that from the very first I 

 have found the increase in size, beauty and perfection of fruits of 

 all kinds simply incredible. I am this season making experiments 

 on two apple trees, one set four years ago, two or three years old 

 when set, and the other a tree at least forty years old, selected from 

 others in our orchard, and judging from present appearance of 

 these trees, the farmer who allows five years to pass over his head 

 without trenching his orchard, should give up farming altogether.' ' 



" While on this subject I cannot omit saying that being a Jer- 

 seyman by birth and bringing up, I have from boyhood taken a 

 deep interest in everything connected with fruit raising and mar- 

 ket gardening. I have seen more manure used annually on one 

 acre in New Jersey than Mr. Cole has used on his whole five acres 

 during the last two seasons, and in no instance have I known more 

 than a quarter of a crop grown in New Jersey or in Western 

 Pennsylvania (where I now reside and own a small farm under a 

 good state of cultivation) when compared with crops grown by Mr. 

 Cole. From the first day of my superintendence of the " Home on 

 the Hillside " I have made a study of fungoid growths, the seeds of 

 fungus, their attack upon roots, and effects generally upon plants, 

 and I am prepared to say that after reading works on agriculture 

 and horticulture for fifty years, the agricultural and horticultur- 



