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THE STUDY OF HORTICULTURE. 



BY J. C. BLAIR, 



Professor of Pomology and Chief in Horticulture, University of Illinois. 



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HE u BP Any Q^A^^^Q^^^^^^^> Illinois, September, 1902. 



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Dominie Apple Tree. 



^'There was practically only one general horticultural 

 commodity a hundred years ago and that was the apple/* 

 — Cyclopedia of American Horticulture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The city with its noisy streets and many storied 

 buildings has always seemed to the country boy or girl a 

 fascinating place in which to live, while city children flock 

 to the parks and try to picture what it must be to live in 

 such a beautiful place all the time, for to the city child 

 the country is just a great park. Almost all of us have 



