CHAPTER VII 



HARVESTING AND MARKETING 



"By their fruits ye shall know them." 



"The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." 



— Matthew. 



I have always been astonished at the amount 

 of horticultural information revealed in the 

 Bible. Each of these texts deals with a subject 

 that must have been fairly familiar to the peo- 

 ple of that day or it would not have been used 

 to illustrate a lesson. 



It is still certainly true that we know a tree 

 by its fruits. Once in a while of course we are 

 at a loss to place accurately some particular 

 tree as being the exact variety that we thought 

 we had planted, but then little disappointments 

 of that sort are common enough to most fruit- 

 growers. 



As to the second quotation — could anything 

 be more true in our modern orchards than the 

 condition mentioned there? What orchardist 

 is there but that has had his labor troubles in 

 the last few years — "and will have," as Omar 

 says. 



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