ON THE POSSIBILITIES 



improvements, all of them, which are capable of 

 turning losses into profits, and of multiplying 

 profits, instead of merely adding to them by single 

 per cents. 



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Improving the yield and, consequently, the 

 usefulness and profit of existing plants, however, 

 is but the beginning of the work before us. 



An almost equally rich field lies in saving 

 plants from their own extravagance, thereby 

 increasing the yield. 



The fruit trees of our fathers and mothers were 

 shade trees in size, with all too little fruit. 



The ideal orchard of today, generally speaking, 

 is the one which can be picked without the use of 

 a step ladder. Thus, already, we have taught fruit 

 bearing plants economy — saved them the extrava- 

 gance of making unnecessary wood, at the expense 

 of fruit, since it is their fruit, not their wood, that 

 we want. 



The grapes of our childhood grew sparsely on 

 climbing vines which covered our arbors; while 

 the grapes grown for profit today grow thickly, 

 almost solidly, on stubby plants three feet or so 

 in height. The value of the grape plant lies in 

 the fruit and not in the vine. 



In so many different ways can we save our 

 plants extravagance and increase their useful 



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