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duced of late years from Northern Europe will be rejected, as but 

 very few of them offer any advancement over our own well-known 

 sorts. Still we are advancing. Many earnest, intelligent, and de- 

 termined cultivators are at work testing, hybridizing, experimenting, 

 and we may reasonably hope that in the not remote future we shall 

 have an assortment that shall, in hardiness, productiveness and gen- 

 eral value, exceed anything we are now acquainted with. 



And now I would most earnestly appeal to the nurserymen of 

 not only Northron Illinois, but of the entire Northwest, to give this 

 matter their earnest attention. It is certainly high time that we 

 should get out of the old rut of propagating our trees by a method 

 that has been weighed in the balance so many years and found 

 wanting. Our people have a right to look to the nursery trade for 

 a supply of a class of trees adapted to the peculiarities of our cli- 

 mate, and they will cheerfully pay an extra price for trees worth the 

 money. The nurseryman, on the other hand, can well afford to 

 propagate them thus, if he can realize a price that will remunerate 

 him for the extra labor, expense, and time required for the purpose. 

 Shall it be done? 



