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Additional experience has confirmed my faith in this 

 doctrine ; for, where seed have been obtained from cross 

 fertilization of healthy and strong growers, the progeny 

 has partaken of the same character ; but, where the pa- 

 rents have been of slender habit or slow growth, the off- 

 spring have exhibited corresponding qualities. If this 

 fact may be relied upon, though the process of artificial 

 impregnation be difficult and tedious, yet, pursued with 

 skill and perseverance, it will ultimately secure a rich 

 reward. We should not be disheartened by the poor 

 success of Duhamel, or of Mr. Knight, with his hybrid- 

 ized pears ; for the failure of the latter is attributable to 

 the selection of inferior varieties, from which his seed- 

 lings were raised. In reliance upon natural fertilization, 

 I would still encourage the continual planting of the 

 seeds of choice varieties of all kinds of fruit, in the belief 

 that new and valuable varieties may thus be obtained. 

 By these various processes we shall have continual acces- 

 sions to our collections of such choice fruits as the Beurre 

 Clairgeau, Beurre d'Anjou and Doyenne Boussock pears. 

 Let nothing discourage you in this most hopeful depart- 

 ment of pomology. Go on, persevere ; 



" Give uew endeavors to the mystic art, 

 Try every scheme, and riper views impart ; 

 Who knows wbat meed thy labors may await ? 

 What glorious fruits thy conquests may create ? " 



These are triumphs worthy of the highest ambition, 

 conquests which leave no wound on the heart of memory, 

 no stain on the wing of time. He who only adds one 

 really valuable variety to our list of fruits is a public 

 benefactor. I had rather be the man who planted that 

 umbrageous tree, from whose bending branches future 

 generations shall pluck the luscious fruit, when I am 

 sleeping beneath the clods of the valley, than he who has 



