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fumigation will injure them in this condition. ‘There 
will be kicks along the line, for frequently trees are 
shipped and reshipped, sold and resold, several times 
before they are eventually planted, and no doubt fre- 
quently set a few miles from where they were grown. 
At the other end of the season there are always lots of 
people who forget all about ordering until the trees 
begin to: grow or come into bloom, and then it is too 
late to fumigate safely at the usual strength. These 
two extremes seem to block the way and prejudice 
many nurserymen against fumigation. 
‘‘We do not have to depend upon the notions of 
other nurserymen hundreds of miles away. We can 
dig, fumigate, and pack our trees when the right time 
comes. ‘This accounts, in part, for our not being ‘in 
the ring,’ asit were, fighting our own interests, as some 
nurserymen have been doing. In some cases with a 
large majority of tree growers in New York there is 
really no connection or kindred interest between them 
and the fruit grower. ‘Their product is frequently sold 
before digging-time, to go in car-load lots to other 
nurseries hundreds of miles out of New York, and little 
or nothing dothey care what becomes of the trees after- 
ward or whether they are planted in New York or in 
South Africa.”’ 
Protects customers.—We are thoroughly convinced 
that fumigation is most necessary in order that the 
grower of nursery stock may supply his customers 
with trees and vines absolutely free from all insect life, 
While most nursery stock grown in this section is not 
infested with San José scale, yet all is more or less 
infested with aphis and other troublesome forms of 
