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buds for right here is where mistakes occur with men who 

 are careless, and after the budders finish budding one va- 

 liety and they are starting on the next, someone should look 

 over their boxes and see to it that none of the scions are 

 left in the boxes from the kind they had just finished bud- 

 ding. If one scion should happen to be left and handed 

 out to the buckler on the next row, it means that eight or 

 ten trees will grow up in that next row, which will be a 

 mixture, and unless they are discovered two years from that 

 time it might mean several thousand mixed trees, as the 

 ouds will be cut from these trees. If this mistake should 

 occur in apple, pear and cherry, it might be remedied, but 

 in peach where they almost all look alike, it would be dif- 

 ficult to discover and more mistakes occur in peach than in 

 any other kind of fruit trees. Although crooked dealers 

 have been known to furnish the fruit grower as many 

 varieties as he might want, out of one block. I know of 

 one man in the business who sent out a carload of peaches 

 that he bought in ^Michigan and he sold every variety that 

 people wanted from that one car. (Laughter). 



THE CHAIRIMAN : I guess we had some out of that car. 

 (Laughter). 



After the budding season the work consists of intense 

 cultivation and proper pruning: until such time as the 

 trees are ready to be dug, and in digging season it is im- 

 portant that the work be done properly by getting good 

 roots and taking care of the trees in a proper way after 

 they come out of the ground. 



I knew of a jobber who bought three car loads of trees 

 in bulk from a nursery firm, a few hundred miles from our 

 place. The jobber knew that this nurseryman grew good 

 trees, but he had also discovered that a great many of his 

 trees had failed to grow. He notified the firm that he 

 would be at their nursery whenever they were prepared to 

 ship. He received the notice, went to their nursery and 

 called at their office. He was taken out to their shed and 

 found his trees had been exposed to the sun and Avind in. 



