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Garden and Forest 



401 



Fig, 64. — Rhododendron (Azalea) arboresccns. — See pa«;e 400. 



character and reputation. But besides these, and other less 

 prominent ones, it is well to remember tliat every section has 

 local varieties of real merit, especially adapted to their soils, 

 and quite as profitable, if not of such tine ciuality, as any of the 

 newer sorts. Many a good Apple has not been honored with 



book registry nor descriljed by an official pomologist. Tliese 

 old and valuable varieties should not be neglected and alloweil 

 to disappear. Every man who owns an orchard or an Apple 

 tree should know liow to griift and bud, and see that these 

 choice old-time varieties arc not forever lost. Theolil Pom- 



