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obtained? " If you litive rnised your own trees upon your 

 own soil and liave taken proper care of tlieni, you aro 

 a lucky man. Use them by all means. If you liavo 

 none (and the cliances are strong tliat you have not), pro- 

 cure good trees from some other source, and it does not mat- 

 ter nmcli from what source, if the trees are good. Get 

 trees wliich have made a healtliy, tln-ifty growth, tliat have 

 neitlicr been forced nor stunted, and the chances arc stronr' 

 that you will be better satisfied, everything else being equal, 

 with trees grown in your own vicinity, than with thoso 

 bought of foreis^n tree venders. 



Let me not be understood as condemning the whole raco 

 of tree peddlers ; tliey are not all of them necessarily un- 

 mitigated scoundrels. A man may travel about the coun- 

 try selling trees and at the same time be honest, but it is an 

 undisputable fact that people have sometimes been woefully 

 bitten. Selling a new, unproved variety of grape at five 

 dollars per plant and furnishing a poor plant at that, selling 

 the Tetofsky apple at one dollar per tree and making folks 

 believe the scion with whicli the tree Avas grafted camo 

 from Eussia, selling people an endless variety of trees, 

 many of whicli are in no wise adapted to the locality, and 

 which, with the best treatment, will never prove profitable, 

 promising to faiMhh fi.-ot-cla^s trc33, g^Ing t3 tho l;u-g3 

 commei-cial nurseries of the West and buying the refuso 

 trees which the nursery-men will not send out themselves^ 

 and with these filling their orders — these are a few of tho 

 sins of some tree agents, which the mIioIc class arc, in a 

 measure, unjustly obliged to answer for. 



The Best Sized Teee. — For setting, I think that ono 



