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ten or more years after planting, will its beauty and fruitfulness in 

 latef years depend. Young trees usually need some pruning as soon 

 as the second year after planting, but all that is needed to do that 

 work is a strong, sharp pocket-knife, and if that is properly used, 

 morQ or less, as the trees need it every year onward for a few years, 

 there will seldom, if ever, be any need of such severe pruning as has 

 been advised by one or more of your correspondents during the past 

 few weeks. 



No man should ever attempt to grow fruit of any kind who is. not 

 willing to take as good care of his trees as he does of any other crop 

 he grows. If he is ignorant of such work, he should in some way 

 try to inform himself, as there is usually some way to learn the best 

 methods of doing all kinds of work. 



INFERIOR TREES EXPENSIVE. 

 (By Albert Brownwell, Northwest Horticulturist.) 



It costs more to produce a good article than a poor one, and in 

 buying, the first question should be, not how cheap, but how good 

 it is. Many people understand this well enough, and yet how few 

 ever stop to apply the rule to nursery stock. In no other kind of 

 purchase is the quality of the article of such vital importance as in 

 nursery stock. 



The price of a tree is the smallest part of its cost by the time it 

 has come into bearing. If a man buys cheap trees to save a few cents 

 on each, by the time the trees come into bearing the expense of the 

 land, labor, etc.^, has amounted to several times the original cost of 

 the trees, and consequently if his cheap stock turns out as it uni- 

 formly does, to be of inferior and worthless varieties, then it is a 

 serious loss to him, and he has to begin all over again. 



Now, is it not plain to all that it is rank folly for anyone to risk 

 this dead loss of trees, use of land for years, expense of cultivating, 

 etc., to save a few cents on the tree, when for a trifling increase in 

 price he can get the very best warranted stock' , 



As a mere matter of insurance a man cannot afiford to buy any- 

 thing but the best, warranted nursery stock. 



It is a general rule, which can be relied on that "cheap" stocjc is 

 worthless stock, and therefore dear at any price. If a man won't pay 

 for good stock, but buys cheap stock in order to save money, he is 

 very sure to lose all he puts into it. Most of the worthless stock 



