CHAPTER I 



THE MODERN BEAR-QUICK APPLE 



THE old fruit-growing cultivated a large tree to get a 

 small fruit ; the new gathers a large fruit off a small 

 tree. 



The reduction of the tree and the enlargement of the 

 fruit marks in a phrase the genius of the new fruit- 

 growing. 



The new fruit tree is not only a Big-fruit tree, it is 

 also a Bear-quick tree. The grower gets large fruit and 

 gets it soon. 



The small tree with the large fruit opens up fruit- 

 growing to the thousands of people with small gardens 

 who used to feel that under the regime of the large, slow- 

 bearing tree considerations of space and time both stood 

 in the way of their planting trees. 



For there to be a nation of fruit-growers there must 

 be a nation of fruit-lovers. The vegetarian, fruitarian 

 and nutarian societies have done good service by hammer- 

 ing into the public the fact that the daily dietary of 

 everybody, young and old, can only be perfect when it 

 includes a supply of fruit. Therefore, whether we are 

 of the elect or not we will give them praise and 

 honour. 



Fruit on the table every day with beef, bacon, bread, 

 butter, Potatoes and such other comestibles as may be 

 found there means an extended acreage of trees in 



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