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If we shall cause some one to plant and care 

 for only a small home orchard, which would 

 give his family a bountiful supply of fruit, 

 (which everj^ family should have) and thereby 

 create in the boys and orirls a love for s^ood 

 fruit and a desire to plant and care for trees, it 

 may be a means of advancing horticulture, as 

 their work and its effect may be passed on and 

 on to future generations. 



Should we be able, by giving to the public 

 our experience, to keep even one person, who 

 like the writer, found it necessary to utilize 

 rough lands for orcharding, from making some 

 of the many mistakes which crowd in upon us 

 as fruit growers, we shall feel that our efforts 

 have not been in vain, as has been so well ex- 

 pressed in the following lines: 



"I may not reach the heights sublime: 



M/place is lowly and unknown. 

 But if I've caused the light to shine 



Across some pathway, dark and lone; 

 If some one called me kind, and then, 



Another found in me a friend ; 

 If but one wanderer on Life's way, 



Would pause beside my grave, and say, 

 *He did his best the world to make 



A sweeter place, for mankind^s sake/ 

 Or some bent form its step would stay 



To whisper, 'He helped me on my way* ; 

 Or one in sore distress or need, 



Remembering me, would for me plead ; 

 I shall not miss the laurel crown 



