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I'lCKi-Xi., .VlL^:-,!- CuL'-Xii VuRK l-Mi'KklAL. 



( Nothing but Fancy Fruit in Sight.) 



SUCCESSFUL ORCHARDING IN VIRGINIA. 



Hux. S. L. LuPTox. ]]'inchcster, Va. 



yiv. President. Ladies and Gentlement. members of the Adams 

 County Horticultural Society : 



If you will turn to your programs you will see that I have been 

 invited to tell you about successful orcharding in A^irginia and I 

 desire at the outset to take exception to that title to the remarks I 

 shall make. 



I have come among you not to tell you of successful orcharding 

 but to tell you of the mistakes I have made. I helped to plant the 

 first commercial apple orchard ever planted in the A'alley of Vir- 

 ginia and can therefore trace my mistakes from the very beginning 

 of things horticulturally speaking. 



I can tell you of these mistakes. hoA^'ever. Avith less shame and 

 sorrow because if my contact with human nature has taught me 



