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will not last near so long, yet thinning is hardly ever 

 practiced. Crowding is injurious in any crop. The far- 

 mer for instance, would consider it a farce to leave ten 

 or fifteen stalks of cotten, corn or potatoes in one 

 hill. Likewise, the gardner would not leave six or ten 

 cabbage plants or cucumber plants in one hill for they 

 have fovmd out that less is produced by such a method 

 and to thin out to one or two plants far better results 

 are obtained. Yet the same farmer or gardner never ihlx. 

 thinks to thin the twenty or more apples or peaches on 

 a sm all shoot. They:; seem to desire the greater num- 

 ber of specimens and poor quality while the market de- 

 mands the opposite. Good quality and fewer specimens 

 are the better. 



All successful fruit growers now expect to thin 

 their fruit, especially' their peaches, plums and dwarf 

 pears. It may be accomplished either by picking or by 

 pruning the trees for such a piu-pose. If the grower re- 

 sorts to the priming of his trees to thin his fruit buds 

 and fruit spores are else he might loose too much of his 

 fruit, 



GATHERIIJG, 



Thomas,* says that mankind consists of two grand di- 

 visions _ the careless- and the careful. Each individual 



♦ Awxifr^^^A *-w *-» 



c-n Fruit Culturist, 



