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they will breed, as Jersey cows and Berkshire hogs are now bred. 

 It costs an apple grower nothing to make a few hybrids of different 

 varieties each year. The seeds of these hybrids can be grown in a 

 corner of the garden at little exj^ense until they produce sprouts 

 two or three feet high, when buds or scions can be taken and top 

 worked into large trees. Such experiments if made generally would 

 unquestionably, in a short time, result in the discovery of many im- 

 proved varieties and the names of their producers would go down in 

 history as have the names of Colonel Baldwin, the introducer of the 

 Baldwin apple and Ephraim Bull, the originator of the Concord 

 grape. 



