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TILLEES OF THE.GEOUND CHAP. 



they can hand on to their children there, to stand 



still is to go back. 

 Let us go back 

 to the watered land 

 in Arizona, and see 

 why skill'is neces- 

 sary. The won- 

 derful fruits that 

 the watered land 

 grows have been 

 mentioned especi- 

 ally, because such 

 remarkable crops 

 of fruit always 

 seem to us to mean 

 wealth untold ; 

 but really the 

 fruit-crops, though 

 the most con- 

 spicuous, are not 

 the most import- 

 ant. We shall 

 find that it is 

 often so, that the very striking things are not 

 always very important, and that wisdom often 

 means the power to see the real importance of 

 things that seem trivial. The apparently trivial 

 thing in this case is a fodder plant called lucerne, 



FIG. 7. Alfalfa. 



