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improperly, and this injury is more severe, for that 

 caused by freezing may not be of great damage 

 to the tree, while the former results in death in a 

 short time. 



No one will claim that this condition of a tree 

 is of no consequence, and no one would wish to 

 plant such a tree; but there are, in my opinion, 

 throughout the United States, far more trees that 

 are discolored than perfectly sound ones. In Ver- 

 mont, the Baldwin is one of their most valuable 

 trees, yet, Mr. Hoskins tells us, that he does not 

 know of one tree of this variety which is not dis- 

 colored. The same is true of the Talman Sweet in 

 the west, and measurably so with the Fameuse, yet 

 both are valuable, long-lived trees. 



The " Super knowledgist" should also be men- 

 tioned in this connection as one of the enemies. 

 As the word is coined for the occasion it will be 

 well to define it. 



He is the man whom A. Ward must have had in 

 his mind when he said: "It is better not to know 

 so much than to know so many things that ain't 

 so." He is a walking encyclopedia of positive 

 knowledge. When he goes with us to the orchard 

 school begins and unless we are carefully on guard 

 he will open his knife and give us practical lessons 

 in pruning by mutilating our trees. He is the man 

 who plants his vegetables in the moon, and who 

 "never knew it to fail." He will tell us how to 

 make dried trees grow by putting a feed of oats 

 under them, o^ sticking a potato on the ends of all 



