Hence the apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, grape, and an almost endless
list of small fruits, and in carrying out this design it will be no great stretch
of imagination to include flowers. Although not trees proper, still they have
enough of tree properties to answer their purpose; they also bear fruit suffi-
cient for all to know them by their fruit. A wise man said, ‘*‘ He who plants
a tree confers a benefit on his country.’ The miserly man plants trees that
bear fruit that can be measured and sold for money. His wiser neighbor plants
more; he plants the trees for profit, and also plants the trees that are pleasant
to the sight. Witness the long rows of trees that line each side of our high-
ways, and still every one of these is a money tree. When well established they
add to the selling value of the property to which they belong from two to
thirty dollars each; fruit by which any common man might know them.
