WHY WE WROT£ THIS PAMPHbET 
Long experience and careful study has convinced us that for the want of proper 
M information on the subjects discussed in this booic a vast amount of labor is thrown 
•^way and many failures and bitter disappointrnsnts follow. In the case of animals, 
■ seminal weakness and consequent degeneration has become pret(y well understood, but 
we assert that scarcely one fruit grower in a hundred has ever dreamed it had anything 
to do with the failure of his trees, vines and plants to produce fruit. 
An extended conversation with farmers generally will show there is the gr^eatpst 
ignorance as to the sexuality in the vegetable kingdom. Their attention has not been 
called to it, and they have not given it a moment of thought. 
Year after year they plod along, trying to make their 
IMPOTENT PLANTS 
respond to their labor, and reap nothmg but bitter disappointment. We believe the 
ideas advanced in these pages are correct and of the most vital importance, and that 
they have not received the consideration they deserve. If we are to succeed we must 
KNOW THE CAUSES 
that produce the effects. 
We have made phenominal progress during the last twenty years in fruit growing, 
and this is very largely due to dissemination of information, and there is room enough 
for all in working out the inany yet unsolved problems. There should be 
NO SECRETS KEPT 
that will benefit mankind, but we must hasten to give our co-workers the advantage of 
our new discoveries, receiving in return that which is more valuable than money — the 
thanks of a grateful people. 
1 do not claim to have discovered the best possible way of doing everything: 
circumstances must govern in a great degree. We tell you in the following pages how 
we prefer to do these things, and if you have a better way please write us and say how 
you do it, and we will pay you for your trouble. We purchase a large amount of labor 
in conducting our farm operations and can well afTord to pay for information that will 
enable us to make it accomplish the most in the best way. 
If this Booklet shall go out and awaken a new interest in fruit growing which shall 
■ — cause several berries to grow where one grew before, I shall be happy indeed. We 
believe the time is near at hand when our people will not spend their time in cultivating 
a plant that 
PRODUCES NO FRUIT. 
That they will investigate the cause, and if that cause cannot be removed they will not 
permit it to cumber the ground. We should learn that there never was an effect with- 
out a cause. 
If my literary style should become the subject of criticism, 1 beg to say 1 am not a 
literary man. I am a farmer, yet an enthusiastic student of horticulture. I shall 
continue my investigations, and during the coming year hope to enlarge this work and 
present some new and valuable features, and you are cordially invited to send me any 
suggestions you can. This book has been copyrighted. Parties copying for catalogue 
purposes will be held responsible. 
