SEVEN] OUT IN THE ORCHARD 
thirty should be second grade; and thirty more 
should go into third grade, or cider. Let no wormy 
fruit lie in your orchard at any season of the 
year, for the larvee of the moths will pass into the 
ground, and make you future trouble. 
I am in danger of keeping you too long in the 
orchard. I love the sight and smell of apple trees, 
as well as the sight and smell of the fruit. I have 
a dozen sorts lying about my desk, flanking the 
books and papers, and they are quite as beautiful 
and fragrant as the nasturtiums in a great bowl 
of water, and mignonette in a vase with a rosebud. 
I have intended this chapter to cover a wide 
field; yet there is a wider field still opening before 
the fruit grower. The government is enthusias- 
tic over a new fruit produced by the experiment 
stations in charge of the Agricultural Department. 
This is a cross between the orange as it grows in 
Florida and the hardy citrus which has been grown 
successfully through the most of the apple belt. 
This citrus, while yielding flowers of exquisite odor, 
had given us no fruit for consumption. The new 
variety is a thoroughly good dessert fruit, but of 
small size. This, however, matters little; all we 
wanted was to have the door opened in this 
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