HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;—GRAFTING 
possibilities of producing something of surpas- 
sing value to the world. Even in case the new 
fruit created is not better than old fruits of 
the same class, there is great satisfaction, as 
with the flowers, in being able to present to a 
friend a fruit which one has himself made; 
while there is before one the other possibility 
of producing a fruit which is to revolutionize, 
as many of his fruits are revolutionizing, the 
production of the world. 
The seedlings could be transplanted from 
their trench and allowed to grow to maturity 
upon their own roots, but this would, as a rule, 
take all the way from six to twenty years, 
while by grafting them upon a mature tree 
they may be hurried forward to fruitage in 
two to four seasons. It would have been 
impossible for Mr. Burbank to have reached 
the results he has achieved if he had depended 
upon first raising his seedlings to the period of 
bearing fruit before determining their value. 
He could not have accomplished the ends he 
has reached in a thousand years. 
In the way of instruments Mr. Burbank 
recommends to the amateur any good pruning- 
knife of fine steel, a smaller knife like 
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