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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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vided our boys andgirls have been rightly educated to coun-try tastes. All this while we have not onlygrown trees and raised fruit, we have alsodone it comparatively. We have cross-bred many stocks and have originatedsome choice improvements. Amongthese is a blackberry, which we call theKing Philip; it is now in the hands ofa propagator. One whole garden isgiven up to seedling gooseberries, severalof which are of decided value, while wehave been enabled to extend the seasonfrom July ist to September. We have been able to develop onlyone apple of decided value, a sweet,superior to anything else unless it be theDanchy. Strawberries we find quitecapable of easy evolution, but new sortsslip away from us so easily that we havenever placed any on the market. In thecurrants we have originated a sort thatstands seven feet high and bears onethird larger crops than Fay. Of beanswe retain half a dozen sorts of greatvallie, out of five hundred sorts thrownaway. That is, we are doing the same sort
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UNCLE NED, THE GARDENER. of work, on a small scale, that Mr. Bur-bank and Mr. Munson and some of theexperiment stations are doing on alarge scale. I recommend this kind ofwork for every rural home, so as to in-ject into the hard labor the relief ofnovelty. It prevents routine dullness,and the young people become fascinatedwith the art of creating. It will besurprising if the result is not to refinethe manners of the youngsters. This cross-breeding of plants is a verydelicate piece of work and may be calledthe refinement of labor. It combinesscience and art, and there is alwayssomething ahead to anticipate—some-thing novel and entertaining. A ladwill weed in the garden cheerfully, if hecan have the seedlings which he dis-covers; that is, a lad brought up as Ihave described. We raise, as you see, about everythingthat we eat, and then have a surpluswith which we could easily pay all thebills of a modest family life. Nothingis allowed to go to waste, and no timemust be frittered away, a

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