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Show A FRUITFUL TREE. ' ' By their fruits ye shall know them," the Bible tells us. Applying this rule to an apple tree at Findlay, California, that remarkable horticultural specimen should become known from ono end of the earth to the other. This tree bears thirty-two kinds of apples and six kinds of pears. It is pronounced by experts to be one of the wonders of plant growth, and unique among its fellows, if, indeed, any others may presume to the dignity of fellowship. fellow-ship. Many years ago Henry Flater ' encountered en-countered this tree. It wasn't much of a tree, as apple trees go, but, somehow, some-how, Flater had confidence in it and set about its rehabilitation. "When Flater went to work on it the trunk was decayed in a number of places. Limbs were dead, and farmers predicted that it never would yield again. Filling the holes with cement, and bracing broken limbs with chains, Flater grafted on a number of different kinds of apples. Year after year he added on now grafts, until this summer sum-mer the tree is rewarding his painstaking pain-staking care with more than three dozen varieties of fruit. It is estimated that the tree is seventy-five years old, but it shows no signs of senility, for it bears apples from early summer to late fall. |