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is worked off by strange agents, who sell on their own account, and 

 are not authorized by any responsible firm to take orders for them. 

 Such men buy up refuse stock from large nurseries for almost noth- 

 ing, and fill their orders with it, claiming it to be good. They also 

 frequently warrant the stock, but as they are unknown or irrespon- 

 sible, their waranty is absolutely worthless. 



If people would buy only from agents who can show a certificate 

 authorizing them to represent a responsible firm, there would be no 

 danger of being cheated. 



WE CANNOT GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. 



This is not a world where we can get something for nothing, and 

 where an article is offered at an extraordinarily low price, there must 

 be some good reason for it. 



The very simple reason is that as the article is of bad quality it 

 cannot be sold in competition with first-class goods, and is therefore 

 necessarily worked off on the public at a low rate to catch those 

 people who will bite at anything cheap, without regard to quality. 

 Such" people never get ahead, because they waste their money on 

 poor trash that gives them no "value received" for their outlay. 



FALL PLANTING OF FRUIT TREES. 



(By A. T. Erwin, Iowa.) 



The dormant season of plant growth is now coming on, and the 

 farmer who is planning to add to his fruit plantation is likely to be 

 confronted with the question of fall or spring planting". It is well 

 kiiOAvn among gardeners that a soil temperature some degrees above 

 that of the atmosphere stimulates root growth, hence we have the 

 practice of bottom heat for the rooting and establishment of cuttings 

 and repotted plants. In fall we have natural conditions which are 

 essentially those of a bottom heat. Throughout the summer the earth 

 is cooler than the atmosphere. In fall the conditions are reversed 

 and the earth is the warmer. Hence, in this respect, we have an ideal 

 condition for transplanting work, and a factor, which does not exist 

 in our favor at spring time. Again, in fall there is more leisure for 

 such work, there are not apt to be delays on account of wet weather 

 a.s in the spring. If the work is done sufficiently early in the fall, 

 the tree becomes partially established before winter, and hence has 

 an earlier start for its work the following season. So much, then, in 

 favor of fall planting. 



