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themselves by seeds. The grafts and buds taken from such choice trees 

 are often weak in vegetative force and fail to preserve their superiority 

 when removed to other conditions. Young trees produce leaf buds of 

 liigh vitality, and are best for propagation. It is their mission to make 

 strong trees before fruiting begins. ]Many old trees are diseased, and 

 sometimes put forth a supreme effort to bear fine fruits. If propagated 

 from, diseased conditions follow. There are many contradictions and 

 little-known conditions in nursery practice. Kieffer pears and seedlings 

 are useless as stocks for European varieties, but the combination works 

 to perfection the other way. California peach pits, strenuously advocated 

 a few years ago, are not as good as the Tennessee product. — Rural New 

 Yorker. 



QUALITY AND STYLE PAY. 



B. Newhall: •'Quality pays; style pays still better; and both to- 

 gether best of all ; you growers know it, but possibly we dealers realize 

 it even more fully. For instance, we were getting at one time in the same 

 carload, apples which were selling at the rate of $9 per barrel, and not 

 enough to go around, and those which sold at $1.50, and slow at that — 

 both called No. i, both sound, but the former of higher flavor, high color, 

 perfect as to shape and in an attractive package, finely packed ; the latter 

 sound, but dull and uninviting in color, of poor flavor and in a slovenly 

 looking package and poorly packed. We sold Seckel pears at $8 and $2 

 per barrel last fall on the same day, and we got full price on both. It 

 was quality and style that made the difference. Not once, but many 

 times, we have sold apples of -fancy varieties, sound and freshly received 

 the same day, at $2 and at $10 per barrel. Few shippers realize the value 

 cf just a little of nature's tinting on the skin of an apple, or how slight 

 a difference in this line will mean a difference of from 50 cents to $1 per 

 barrel in the price. Quality pays. Choose your variety wisely, take 

 pains with your orchard treatment, study the market's needs, but above 

 all, cultivate style in fruit packing and package, and when to this style 

 you add quality, you have a combination that will sell fruit at prices that 

 will often surprise you." — Country Gentleman. 



NUMBER ONE APPLES. 



The International Apple Growers' Association has fixed the size of 

 the No. I grade at not less than two and three-fourths inches in diameter, 

 must be well matured and without blemish.— Practical Fruit Grower. 



