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When the hlooraing season occurs put a sash over the frames to 

 prevent the access of foreign pollen and as soou as impregnation is 

 complete remove the sash to aftord air and water. It will be observed 

 that if a is strictly pistillate, cross impregnation will be inevitable. 

 Now, secure the highest development of the berries and choose the 

 most perfect in size, form, color and quality for seed. 



The plants from such seed will be a most interesting study. They 

 may be expected to show wide and wonderful variations in habit of 

 plant, flower and fruit with a possibilit}' of valuable results. In case 

 two bi-sexual varieties are used the mother plant a should, on the first 

 opening of the flowers, have all the stamens removed with fine scis- 

 sors to escape self-impregnation. 



The same remark holds true regarding other fruits also where cross 

 fertilizations are desired. And with grapes and tree fruits, a small sack 

 of fine muslin should protect the flowers which have been castrated and 

 the desired pollen from the chosen variety should be applied to the 

 stigma of those flowers using a soft camel's-hair-brush or something 

 of the kind. 



This field is a wide and inviting one giving an opportunity of work- 

 ing out beneficent results. To those who are beginners in this work 

 let me say, that a large amount of labor may be saved by an early 

 rejection of worthless plants, vines or trees, where the foliage or 

 wood show a reversion toward the wild type, the sooner they are 

 uprooted the better. 



Again, in judging of the merits of new fruits, what we want is 

 not mediocrity but superiority ; and as a rule no new fruit should 

 be generally introduced unless it has points of superiority over varie- 

 ties we already have ; but we have not attained perfection in any 

 one fruit as yet so the field ib fairly open to an}^ intelligent and judi- 

 cious endeavor. 



Let no one be discouraged at repeated failures, trial after trial 

 may result in nothing of special value ; but when a variety of real 

 and decided value is obtained it is easy to multiply it indefinitely, 

 and bless the world with it. 



Therefore as a mark of good will, and as a pleasant recreation as 

 well, we most cordially invite attention to this matter. 



Remember the Concord grape, Bartlett pear, Baldwin apple and 

 all other valuable fruits were new seedlings at first ; other seedlings 

 even better, may reasonably be expected as the result of intelligent, 

 persevering effort. 



