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siderable portion of the state ; it is commercially grown in 

 the mountains of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia; it 

 is also commercial in Northern Ohio and Indiana ; it is com- 

 mercial in Michigan, and it is grown commercially clear to 

 the Pacific Coast; along the border they all know it and it 

 is highly regarded in the southern Canadian Provinces. I 

 half suspect that the man who has been reputed to have said 

 that if he wanted to plant a part of his orchard to do the 

 best he would plant 99 Baldwin apple trees in of 100, I half 

 suspect that that man is dead. If he is not, I am sure that 

 the present wave of optimism has reached him, for I clearly 

 imagine that this same man is now engaged in planting 

 1,000 trees instead of a hundred, and that of these thousand 

 I am sure when you look over his planting you will find he is 

 using 400 Mcintosh instead of 999 Baldwins, as formerly 

 suggested. 



I think we need to pause for a moment and speak of 

 this over planting. It is interesting to notice at the pres- 

 en time what an enthusiasm there is on in the matter of or- 

 charding and orchard planting, and this is manifested in 

 the strong meetings. I have had a chance to notice in the 

 institutes of a county society during the last two months 

 *that have been given over to the question of orchards, in a 

 purely agriculoural society. It seems hard to get up enthusi- 

 asm enough to hold a general meeting. Attention has been 

 manifested in the very helpful meetings of the Horticultural 

 Society at Boston, who have a record of the largest attend- 

 ance ever held. All of the neighboring state fruit meet- 

 ings have been largely attended this year, much more large- 

 ly than in several of the years past. The horticultural sec- 

 tion during the present Farmers "Week at the Agricultural 

 College at Amherst furnished hardly standing room when 

 the meetings were in progress. All the professors at the 

 Agricultural College are under a severe strain from meet- 

 ing anything like the requirements for work outside of the 

 class room, for their out of door lectures, for their personal 

 conferences and their classes. Do you know it is a fact that 

 Harvard and Yale and the big classical colleges are turning 

 out more men today who have orchard ambitions than are 

 .the Agricultural colleges? I want to make a statement 

 that while I am usually very optimistic, I may say I am grad- 

 ually getting to the point, of pessimism. I even find that 

 some college professors are getting into the same class, and 

 I want to make a homely comparison. I fear that within. 



