fruit enoTaftecl int(3 it, but tiiat the o-raft does have an 

 influence in furming the habit of the roots of the stock. 

 The same observer may with propriety aslc, how is it 

 that when two scions are engrafted into a limb of an ap- 

 ple tree, one will produce fruit, ripe in August, of yel- 

 low color and sweet flavor, while the other will produce 

 fruit, ripe in January, of red color and acid flavor, both 

 kinds nourished by the same sap, supplied from the 

 same roots. Whence the difference ? 



I think this question can be answered by saying that 

 the material of the fruit is supplied principally from the 

 soil, through the roots, while the quality of it is derived 

 from the atmosphere through the leaves. Hence, the 

 idea of improving the quality of fruit by double work- 

 ing must be a fallacy. 



Let me say a word of the tendency of the sons of 

 farmers to leave the calling of their fithers. I knew a 

 farmer who took his son, a lad of fourteen, into the field 

 to assist him in setting out a young apple orchard. 

 That boy obeyed his father's directions to the letter. 

 If he told him to move a tree to the right or the 

 left, to set it deeper or not so deep, he obeyed ; no 

 more, no less ; but his heart was not in his work. 

 That father saw and keenly felt his son's apathy. He 

 said, " My son, I will listen to an}^ suggestions you may 

 offer with regard to the setting of these trees." From 

 that moment the boy was changed. What ! thought he, 

 does my father wish for suggestions from me ? And if 

 so, should they not be made after careful thought and 

 consideration, that they may be worthy of his attention? 

 *Ihus he argued with himself; thus his mind was turned 

 to the business of the fiirm; thus he learned to love it, 

 -and one boy was saved to the firm, whose mind was 



