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showy apple though so acid & rough as to be unendurable
to a cultivated palate will be sought after and appreciated,
by the masses, in preference to our most superior fruits
this ought not to be. it gives encouragement to cultivate
many inferior fruits that ought long ago be consigned
to the hades, But how is it to be remedied says some one? Why

by cultivating the palate. taste like other senses need cul-
tivating, which can only be done by comparing the inferior
with some standard of excellence, how then will be the
place for accquiring a correct taste for I hope to have
generally some fruits, in their season, of standard excellence
and also some fruit of less merit, and as visitors may obtain
any of the fruits grown, excepting immature one, by paying the value of

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Forwarded

Messrs. Kennicotts
Grove Nurseries
Northfield,
Cook Co. Ills.

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[UF?] AN
NOV
12
Ill.

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