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So lie back, adjust your volume.

Take a nice, deep breath.

And off we go.

This evening we're reading a wonderful book recommended by one of your fellow listeners

American Pemology Apples by Dr. John A Warder, President Ohio

Pomeological Society, Vice President, American Pomological Society, etc.

With 290 illustrations, entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by Orange Judd and Company

at the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New York.

Printed by Lovejoy and Son, Electrotypers and Stereotypers, 15 Van derwater Street, New York.

Let's begin. Preface.

All Patriots may realize a sense of pride when they consider the capabilities of the glorious country in which we are favored to live,

and while fostering no sectional feelings, nor pleading any local interests.

Yet, as Americans and as men, we may be allowed to love our own homes,

our own homes, our own neighborhoods, our states and regions, and we may be permitted

to think them the brightest and best portions of the great republic to which we all belong.

Therefore, the writer asks to be excused

for expressing a preference for his own favored northwest.

And while claiming all praise for this noble expanse,

he wishes still to be acknowledged as most devotedly an American citizen who feels the deepest

interest in the prosperity of the whole country.

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