PEDIGREE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 
THE BEGINNING. 
Wlieii I bes'iin to practice what this 
pamphlet teaches, I soon found myself 
growing- the larg-est crops of the finest 
berries, which sold at the hig-hest price and 
g-ave me name and fame and such a com- 
mand of the market that my products were 
always sold in advance at a price I myself 
fixed upon them. Althoug-h the yield has 
been more than doubled under this system, 
I have never been able to keep abreast of 
the increase of customers. 
The poojile doinaiul a better grade of 
fruit delivered to them in better shape and 
stand ready in every community to richly 
reward the person who can furnish it. It is 
the poor fruit that people will not eat that 
g-luts the market. In the following- pages 
I propose to point out in detail some of the 
methods I have employed to produce this 
result. 
T<> gTO-w strictly fancy fruit does not 
involve an extra amount of labor, but we 
must adopt better methods and look for 
causes which produce desired results. 
Fruit s'rowors aro accustoiiuHl to look 
upon one plant the same as another without 
any reg-ard to its history or pedig:ree. Indeed, 
they regard it as an unconscious, inanimate 
thing, incapable of responding to generous 
treatment or congenial surroundings. This 
;s a grievous mistake. 
Plants are male and female. The 
sexual organs have all the different parts 
and each bears the same office as that of 
animals, and fecundation takes place for the 
multiplication of their .species just as it 
does among animals. All fruit grows only 
to multiply species, and to this end God 
gave to every plant as he did to every 
animal an almost uncontrollable desire to 
accomplish this object, and when left to 
itself unrestricted will throw its whole life 
and being into this one effort, even to utter 
exhaustion which results in impotency and 
inability to fruit. 
Staminate, or Pistilate, or 
Mali; Fi.owek. Femai.;; Flower. 
Take the finest thoroufjhbrert stal- 
lion to be found and let him give all the ser- 
vice he can possibly render. His first colts 
will be true to his type, but will rapidly 
deteriorate until the last " get " will be only 
scrubs. He will soon be in such a condition 
of exhaustion that no amount of feed or 
good care will enable him to stamp his good 
(lualities upon his offspring, and he soon 
becomes a scrub himself. When an animal 
is once seminal ly exhausted he cannot be 
restored to his former value by any process 
of treatment and is abandoned for breeding 
purposes. 
Let me repeat with ein|>hasis that 
the fruit or pulp grows only as a receptacle 
for the seeds to develop in and wherever the 
pistils are not fertilized or impregnated by 
the pollen from the male plant or the pollen 
is weak in potency the fruit will not develop. 
Like the liorse above referred to, if the 
male plant has been allowed to secrete and 
mature pollen to exhaustion thereby destroy- 
