" Good Advice to Buyers of Trees. 



" The agricultural papers for October are repeating their perennial 

 complaints against the 'tree agents,' and nearly every instance mentioned 

 says that the ' victim ' bought, as he supposed, valuable varieties, and after 

 they came into bearing they proved to be nothing but scrubs or inferior 

 seedlings sour apples should have been sweet, red currants white, etc. 



" Now, we have much sympathy for the grower who waits for years to 

 get his trees into bearing, only to find that he has been victimised. Such 

 experiences are disappointing, and in some cases attended with serious loss. 

 The ease with which a label may be changed from one tree to another, and 

 the long time it takes for a tree to bear, are inviting to an unscrupulous 

 agent, and some fall into the temptation. 



" The majority of trees raised in the State of New York are grown by 

 honourable and responsible nurserymen men who know their business, and 

 who keep their varieties ' true to name.' Some of these nurserymen employ 

 agents to sell their trees, and are responsible for the acts of those agents. 

 If a stranger calls on you to sell you trees, do not believe anything he says 

 unless he proves it. If he claims to be ' one of the proprietors ' of a nursery, 

 take his references and write to them. If he says he is a ' special ' or 

 ' general ' agent, he can show a certificate of his agency, and you are to see 

 that it is of recent date. If you make a purchase, have him to give you a 

 duplicate of the order, and see that it is correct and that it has his name 

 written thereon, and then write to the firm who sent him to you, giving a 

 full account of the transaction, and they will acknowledge it. 



" Any one who buys trees should be as cautious about it as if he were 

 buying any other commodity. Satisfy yourself that you are dealing with 

 reliable, established, and responsible nurserymen or their accredited agents. 

 Plant freely of varieties of established value, invest but little in new things 

 until you have tested them on your own land, and avoid all pure-liases of 

 varieties when unreasonable claims are made for them." 



VARIETY LIST. 

 Districts. 



1. Vancouver Island and adjacent islands. 



2. Lower Mainland. 



3. Lytton, Lillooet, and Spences Bridge. 



4. Kamloops District. 



5. Salmon Arm and Armstrong. 

 <i. Vernon and Kelowna. 



7. Lower Oka agan Valley. 



s. Similkainecn. 



9. Kettle River Country. 



10. West Kootenay. 



11. Upper Arrow Lake. 



12. East Kootenay. 



