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upon the support of its members. This Association is also dependent upon a 
supply of new and promising new fruits. We wish to call your attention to the 
fact that the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has thousands of 
seedlings of various fruits either fruiting or coming into bearing. Many of 
these seedlings have already been selected for propagation and distribution 
and therefore we can assure the members that they can look forward to many 
promising new fruits in the near future, 
In addition to the seedlings on the breeding grounds, there are many chance 
seedlings growing throughout the country, Some of these seedlings may have 
possibilities and the best should be studied critically. The Fruit Testing As- 
sociation requests that such fruits be either sent in or brought in for exam- 
ination. If the seedlings are worthy of trial the Experiment Station will be 
pleased to try them out in their test plats. 

FRUITS NOT PATENTED 
The fruits in this catalog are not patented. 
Members of the New York State Fruit Testing 
Association are asked to propagate and distribute 
them to the uttermost. 
In the words of an old English herbalist then, 
“Forward in the name of God: graft, set, plant, 
and nourish up trees 1n every corner of your ground; 
the labor 1s small, the cost 1s nothing, the commodity 
1s great; yourselves shall have plenty, the poor shall 
have somewhat 1n time of want to relieve their ne- 
cessity, and God shall reward your good merits and 
diligence.”’ 
