CITRUS TREES AND THEIR DISEASES 9 



mands upon the soil has been fully kept up by the 

 writer to this day, and he still goes on searching for 

 more and better knowledge than he has already ob- 

 tained. His experiments have been very numerous 

 and his results most wonderful. In several instances 

 the writer has taken diseased trees that were even 

 condemned to death by the leading authorities and pro- 

 duced wonderful cures. 



I desire my readers to understand that my Creator 

 has been my advisor and I have only been his agent or 

 executor. Every reader will recall some time in life 

 when he has had some fine visions and has failed to put 

 them into use and has later in life seen the results of 

 his visions being carried out by some other person. 

 We all have made mistakes in ignoring many sweet 

 dreams that have come to us during life, when if they 

 had been properly tested, no doubt, would have brought 

 surprising results. It is when a man is most deeply 

 interested in his industry, that he probably becomes 

 more or less weary over his results and conditions that 

 these blessed dreams appear, and oft-times these 

 dreams will remain with us for days and weeks and 

 keep refreshing our memory and we continue to ignore 

 and harden ourselves against such dreams as being 

 unworthy of even a thought. I would simply suggest 

 to the reader, that when he has a dream that concerns 

 his line of industry or line of thought, that in any man- 

 ner appeals to him the least bit possible, that he at 

 once act in accordance with this dream and test results. 

 The writer at one time in his early life had a dream; 

 this dream said to him that grandfather did not cut 



