HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;—-GRAFTING 
sixty to seventy thousand shrubs or young 
trees in a single test burned up in a single day, 
and simply because they did not come up 
to the standard set for them. 
Here and there after such a slaughter you 
may see a tiny little tree, perhaps leafless and 
certainly to the eye of the layman presenting 
no signs of superiority. But it bears a curious 
little badge, a white streamer of cloth tied 
about its middle, the sign that henceforth 
it is sacred,—it is the one best one of the 
thousands. ° 
Some idea of the magnitude of the work 
may be obtained from the following figures, 
illustrating the average number of fruits under 
test at a given time at Sebastopol from ycar 
to year: 
Three hundred thousand distinct varieties 
of plums, different in foliage, in form of fruit, 
in shipping, keeping and canning qualities, 
sixty thousand peaches and nectarines, five to 
six thousand almonds, two thousand cherries, 
two thousand pears, one thousand grapes, 
three thousand apples, one thousand two 
hundred quinces, five thousand walnuts, five 
thousand chestnuts, five to six thousand berries 
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