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A Cluster of Adams Couxty Grown "Winter 

 Ban ANA," (every specimen perfect.) 



TILLAGE VS. SOD-MULCH. 



Dr. U. p. Hedrick, Horticulturist, Geneva, Xezv York. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Commercial fruit 

 growing is a comparatively new development in America. The first 

 settlers of the new world brought seeds of fruits from the old 

 world, for it was impossible, with their slow sailing vessels, to bring 

 grafts or the trees themselves. All of the old orchards came from 

 seeds. The first great impetus to American fruit growing came 

 just after the Revolutionary AVar, when a great number of men in 

 different parts of America became interested in introducing new- 

 fruits in America. They shipped to the old world the trees, flowers 

 and plants that were found growing wild in this country, and 



