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give him ripe Pears all the Summer long. In buying 
his stock all these matters are forgotten; he simply buys 
the cheapest trees he can get and labels them to suit his 
orders. He will do the same with Peaches, Apples and 
other similar fruit. To one party he will sell a Clematis, 
to another an Akebia, a Wisteria to another, an Ampel- 
opsis to another, and so on through the whole list of 
climbers. All these he will put on his order as vines, 
and get lowest price for sc many vines to sell them 
cheap; the nurseryman offers him what he has most of, 
and no regard paid as to what nature of vines they are, 
if they are vines at all 1t is near enough. One may have 
particularly ordered a red Clematis, and another a white 
and so on, and should they be Incky enough to geta 
Clematis of any description they may consider themselves 
fortunate. We once heard of a pedlar who had taken 
an order for several hundred Peach trees for a farmer in 
one of the Western States, and came to a prominent Ohio 
nursery to buy his trees for the farmer. At that particu- 
lar time the nursery had no poor stock in Peach trees on 
hand that they could sell low enough to give the pedlar 
a sufficient margin for profit, and the pedlar is never 
known to buy good stock, as it costs more and in conse- 
quence he cannot make as much on it. The nursery in 
question had at this particular time a large surplus of 
Althea plants on hand that had grown too large for their 
trade, and were willing to dispose of them for a mere 
trifle. The temptation was too great for the enterprising 
dealer, a bargain was struck, and the Altheas were ship- 
ped to the farmer for Peach trees. The appearance of 
the trees have some resemblonce to a Peach tree, though 
anybody familiar with fruit trees can readily detect the 
difference. The farmer, however, did not have a suffi- 
cient knowledge to make the discovery, and the trees 
