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fifty-eight years. The circumstance was noticed in a letter to the Times 

 in January 1897, and the same letter suggested an Arbor Day for orchard 

 renewal. Howard, since deceased, on the presentation to him of a testi- 

 monial, admirably summarised cause and effect by the trite sentence : 



" If I hadn't planted that there tree I shouldn't have had all this here 

 fruit ! " In 1895 he gathered thirteen bushels from his Apple-tree> 

 which is a fine specimen, with a trunk 4 feet in circumference and still 

 in its prime. (Fig. 336.) 



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