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Soon on their freshness they'll bring us 



Joy that all freely may reap. 

 Let us plant trees by the wayside, 



Plant them, with love, everywhere; 

 Ours is the pleasure to give them, 

 That others their blessings may share. 

 Beautiful trees, Beautiful trees, 

 We their friends will be." 



An Ideal Fruit Tree.— To our mind an 

 ideal fruit tree would be one which could pro- 

 duce the largest possible amount of fruit with 

 the least expense. Not only considering the 

 cost of caring for the tree, but also the harvest- 

 ing of the fruit It should also be built so as 

 to be able to hold up its load, also occupy as 

 little space ^ as possible. In other words, it 

 should (if it be an ideal tree) give large re- 

 turns in fruit for every foot of space it occu- 

 pies. In order to do this it should have a krge 

 fruit bearing surface, and yet not be top heavy. 

 Then it follows that- it should b^ a tree that 

 would produce fruit all through its centre^ and 

 not as we frequently see, just a rim of fruit 

 over the outside of the tree. 



The location in which the orchard is planted 

 may and should govern the planter to a certain 

 extent in deciding upon what form of tree his 

 ideal shall be. For instance, if the plantings 

 are to be made on level land, and it is import- 

 ant that there be a circulation of air under the 



