56 THE AMERICAN PEACH ORCHARD 



spection will absolutely guarantee the freedom of 

 the trees from diseases and insects, and most of all 

 it does not pretend to say whether the trees are true 

 to name and whether they are in a good merchant- 

 able condition. In other words, the fruit planter 

 must be the final and the most important judge of 

 his own trees. If he cannot tell a dead or a diseased 

 tree from a live and healthy one, he had better go 

 into the retail clothing business. Peach growing is 

 no profession for him. 



