78 THE APPLE-TREE 



cannot maintain' living museums of them, for their func- 

 tion is to investigate rather than to preserve. Arboretums 

 are concerned with other activities. Is there not some per- 

 son of means, desiring to do good to his successors, ready 

 now to establish a fructicetum in perpetuum for the pur- 

 pose of preserving a single tree of at least one hundred of 

 .the choicest apples, to the end that a record may be kept 

 and that amateurs may be supplied with cions thereof? 



