1 48 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



membering that it is in the forest where plants 

 have grown unmolested for generations that we 

 find our loosest and as we say, our richest soils. 

 Here in the deep, dark woods, where plants 

 have lived and died year after year and gener- 

 ation after generation, is taught a lesson that 

 we might do well to learn. It is by their lives 

 that the future growths have been made the 

 more beautiful and useful. Plants, shrubs, and 

 trees apparently seem more mindful of a duty 

 and we are often persuaded that they perform 

 it with more certainty than many tillers of the 

 soil, whom we call farmers. For we find plants 

 using the soil for a life time and leaving it in 

 a better condition for future generations than 

 it was when taken possession of. Such is the 

 work of the unmolested growing plant, and we 

 as orchardists should not be less mindful of the 

 duty we owe to the coming generations. 



Then let us grow plants in order that other 

 plants may flourish, blossom and fruit, that 

 other men may, as we have, enjoy a bountiful 

 harvest, which feeds and clothes our families 

 and gives to the world her stores of grain and 

 golden fruit. 



^^Oh, the good old yeller apple, 



What a friend you are to all ; 

 How we pull you from the branches 



In the cool and snappin* fall. 



