HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;— GRAFTING 



sixty to seventy thousand shrubs or young 

 trees in a single test burned up in a single day, 

 and simply because they did not come up 

 to the standard set for them. 



Here and there after such a slaughter you 

 may see a tiny little tree, perhaps leafless and 

 certainly to the eye of the layman presenting 

 no signs of superiority. But it bears a curious 

 little badge, a white streamer of cloth tied 

 about its middle, the sign that henceforth 

 it is sacred, — it is the one best one of the 

 thousands. 



Some idea of the magnitude of the work 

 may be obtained from the following figures, 

 illustrating the average number of fruits under 

 test at a given time at Sebastopol from year 

 to year: 



Three hundred thousand distinct varieties 

 of plums, different in foHage, in form of fruit, 

 in shipping, keeping and canning qualities, 

 sixty thousand peaches and nectarines, five to 

 six thousand almonds, two thousand cherries, 

 two thousand pears, one thousand grapes, 

 three thousand apples, ' one thousand two 

 hundred quinces, five thousand walnuts, five 

 thousand chestnuts, five to six thousand berries 



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