DOUBLING THE PRODUCTIVENESS 

 OF THE CHERRY 



MORE AND BETTER CHERRIES 



WHEN I chance to see mention in the 

 newspaper headings of the doings of 

 New York's celebrated Four Hundred 

 I am sometimes reminded of the Four Hundred 

 of Sebastopol. 



The particular Sebastopol that I have in mind 

 is the place where my fruit farm is located, about 

 seven miles from Santa Rosa. By the Four Hun- 

 dred of Sebastopol I mean a very aristocratic 

 colony, comprising four hundred families of pedi- 

 greed cherries, that are colonized on a single big 

 tree in my cherry orchard. 



I could speak only from vaguest hearsay as to 

 the lineage of New York's aristocratic coterie, but 

 may claim to discuss the pedigrees of the Four 

 Hundred of Sebastopol with final authority. And 

 I can vouch for the blueness of blood, so to speak, 

 of every one of them. 



[VOLUME IV CHAPTER III] 



