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ihem more times than I have, and some of them have stayed 

 longer, have seen a good deal more than I have and know a 

 good deal more about it, but I shall do the best I can in spite of 

 that. All I can say for myself is that I have been there a 

 time or two, that I had some little acquaintance with the 

 country principally because my mother was born in Germany, 

 that after going there twice and getting acquainted with the 

 country I could find my way about pretty well because I could 

 speak some of the language, and that I was able to stop there 

 for five or six months on the last trip and become settled and 

 acquainted, and so to see and understand a good many of the 

 things which the ordinary tourist does not see and which per- 

 haps he. cannot understand. 



I was located for a time at a little horticultural school near 

 Berlin, and the first picture I show you is taken from the 

 garden there. You will see it is a very nice, well-kept garden, 

 that the trees are planted close together, and that, in fact, they 

 are all of the forms which we call dwarf trees. The standard 

 tree, as we call it, in our orchards, is almost unknown. These 

 are dwarf pear trees which we see along the border of the walk, 

 and these which we see here (picture 2) are dwarf peach 

 trees growing in pots which are kept along here at 

 the fruiting age and are used for replanting in the orchard 

 whenever there is a vacancy. 



Here is a peach tree trained out against the wall, and beside 

 it you see blankets on rollers so that if there is danger of 

 frost the blankets can be rolled over the peach tree and it can 

 be guarded and kept from frost. The peach tree is very care- 

 fully trained there, very carefully taken care of. 



Here in a closed garden carefully walled in on all sides are 

 numbers of pear trees spread on trellises and very carefully 

 trained as to form. You may imagine that these bear large 

 quantities of fruit, as indeed they do, and that the fruit is of 

 a very high quality, as indeed it must be to pay for all that care. 



Now here is an example of apple trees trained against a 

 work building on the grounds of the school. These apple 

 trees are 5 years old, and have borne four crops. Each apple 

 tree there will bear eight or ten apples of the very finest quality. 

 Those which we see are fronting to the south. They get the 

 best and brightest light of the day, the warmth of the sun. 



