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in many ways. It encourages men to plant trees. The 

 disinclination of old men to plant trees rests upon 

 the slenderness of the chance that they will ever gather 

 of the fruit. But a man may plant dwarf trees when- 

 ever his expectation of life is two years or more. 



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FIG. 4 PEAR TREE, TRAINED AS AN ESPALIER 



Such trees would serve octogenarians, consumptives 

 and those sentenced to be hanged for murder. 



Early bearing to return to the subject makes 

 dwarf trees valuable to that large and unfortunately 

 growing class of citizens w r ho rent the premises where 

 they live. They do not expect to stay more than five 



