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that if the stock did not ])rove true to name, they woiihi re- 

 place the trees, but outside of that they were liable for no 

 further damage. 



Now three years ago the firm of which I am a member, 

 King Brothers Nursery^ of Dansville, introduced a new 

 guarantee that reads as follows: "Should any trees uot 

 prove true to name as represented by us, we agree to make 

 good biiyer's loss by reason thereof at any time within tea 

 years of date of purchase. In event we cannot agree, we 

 are each to appoint one arbiter, who shall choose the third, 

 and the award of the majority is to be binding upon l>oth 

 parties. ' ' 



Prof. Sears, in the issue of the Rural New Yorker of 

 December IStli, had a long article in reference to this guar- 

 antee, and he says that if it is generally adopted by nursery- 

 m.en, that it will go further than anything he knows of — I 

 believe those were his words, or substantiall}^ his words — 

 to eliminate errors by nurserymen in filling their orders. I 

 Avill again say that I am very glad to meet the Fruit 

 Growers of ]Ma8sachusetts and to be here, and I thank you 

 kindly for your attention. (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: I am sure we are glad to have these 

 New Yorkers come over here and see a real city. (Laugh- 

 ter). We always enjoy getting over to their meetings. 



I do not want to make this thing one sided; do the 

 representatives of any other nursery firms here want to say 

 a word to us? I do not want nursery experts to feel that 

 we are giving any advantage over them to anybody else. 

 If there are any other representatives of any other firms 

 here, we would be glad to have them say a word to us. If 

 not, we would l)e glad to have questions from the audience 

 for these two men to answer — I don't think they both 

 escaped. Are there any questions you want to bring up at 

 this time on this question of nursery stock? 



A ME:\IBER: I think there is one question that is per- 

 tinent right now. I Avondered while I heard all this talk 

 about growing fancy apples, etc., if after marketing the 



