CROPS AND PROFITS 



water that would rival Alderman Mechi's of 

 Tip-tree Hall. 



It is far easier to accomplish successful re- 

 sults with an old orchard of native, wild growth, 

 than with one of grafted fruit;— even as the 

 Doctors find that a reprobate who has fallen 

 away from grace and early good conduct, is a 

 worse subject for reformation, than an un- 

 kempt savage. 



The grafted tree wants an abounding luxu- 

 riance of material, from which to elaborate 

 its exceeding size and flavor ; and if by neglect, 

 this material be wanting, the organs of its 

 wonderful living laboratory shrink— from in- 

 action, and part with a share of their vitality. 

 The native tree, on the other hand, having no 

 special call upon it for the elaboration of 

 daintier juices than go to supply a cider vat, 

 has steady normal development under all its 

 mosses, and retains a stock of reserved vitality, 

 which, if you humor with good tillage and 

 dressings, and point with good grafts, will 

 carry a good tale to the apple bin. 



On the very orchard I have named, were 

 some two or three uncouth, lumbering, un- 

 promising trees, yet sound as a nut to their 

 outermost twigs, which the simple dressings, 

 tillage, and washings that were bestowed some- 



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