for a person who he said had sold large quantities of Apple trees in his neighborhood, 

 representing himself to be the proprietor of one of the oldest and most extensive nur- 

 series in Western New York, and representing also that his trees were propagated by 

 some superior method which was known to him only, and which gave them a decided 

 superiority over trees grown in the ordinary way. On inquiry, we found this man did 

 not own a single foot of land, had never been a nurseryman, nor had he any interest 

 whatever in any nursery establishment, but bought such trees as he could make the 

 largest profit on. He was a crafty rogue, however, — pretended more than ordinary 

 piety, and victimized the religious people of New England handsomely. A few weeks 

 ago a nurseryman of Rochester received intelligence that he was represented in some 

 parts of Ohio by a person who claimed to be his agent and son, while he not only did 

 not know such a person, but had never seen him or heard of him before, and he was 

 compelled to incur the trouble and expense of advertising him as an imposter. Is not 

 this a high-handed piece of deception to be attempted in such a business, and among 

 an intelligent people ? The man who will do such a thing is not a particle better than 

 he who counterfeits a bank bill or a silver dollar, or who will forge a signature to a 

 bank check. We have it from perfectly reliable authority, that a company of tree 

 dealers, hailing from Ohio, purchased at a small nursery in Western New York a quan- 

 tity of seedling unworked fruit trees, (Peaches and Cherries,) knowing them to be such 

 — for the nurseryman we believe to be a perfectly honest man, — and they took them 

 up, tied them in parcels, and attached labels to them bearing the names of all the best 

 fruits in the catalogues. We were informed that these spurious articles were to be 

 carried to Tennessee. Here is a piece of villainy for you ! Such men richly deserve 

 the penitentiary, and we can not understand how any honest man could conscientiously 

 refrain from exposing them, and thus aid in bringing them to punishment. 



In every part of the country people have been outrageously deceived by itinerant 

 grafters. They traverse the country, and take orders to do grafting at so much apiece 

 for all that live. When the season of grafting comes, a few workmen come along with 

 a wagon-load of scions, containing eveiy variety that could possibly be called for, all 

 procured from the most resj)onsible source ; and as a proof of this, a catalogue of some 

 well-known nurseryman is exhibited, and, it may be, a forged bill or invoice, while the 

 scions were most likely cut from some of the orchards they had been grafting in. 

 Thousands of orchards have been ruined in this way. We have now one in our posses- 

 sion which the previous owner had had grafted by one of these rogues, and instead of 

 having some three or four select sorts, as he ordered, he had a collection of vile rub- 

 bish, mostly natural fruit, and in some cases three or four different sorts on a tree. 



We might go on and cite cases of this sort which have come to our knowledge 

 enough to fill a dozen pages of this journal, but it would be a waste of time and paper. 

 In this part of the country people are more cautious and careful than formerly, and 

 few men now are willing so trust unknown irresponsible persons Avith the important 

 duty of grafting their fruit trees. Not so, how^ever, in some parts of the West and 

 South, where we are informed the speculation is in full blast. We hope this word of 

 warning may find its way there, and prevent at least a few from allowing themselves to 

 be victimized. It is but just to say, in this connection, that there are honest men 

 ed in this business of grafting — men in all respects worthy of confidence, 



