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be had at fifty dollars per hundred; trees of two years' 

 bud, with stock of four or five years' growth, at seventy- 

 five dollars; and a still larger size at one dollar each. 

 When the sweet seedling is purchased for setting out in a 

 grove, it should be not under three nor over five years for 

 the best result to be obtained. 



Setting them out from your home nursery, it is better to 

 put them out just as soon as they are a year old, putting 

 stakes to protect them from the plow and cultivator until 

 they are large enough to take care of themselves. This 

 precaution is, of course, necessary with the young budded 

 trees as well ; and it is especially needful to tie the bud to 

 a stake, lest a high wind should wrench loose its as yet 

 tender hold upon its foster mother ; many are the promis- 

 ing young trees thus lost, from sheer carelessness. 



