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secures a uniform s'em. A hardy sredling stalk is -without doubt 

 the best stalk that can be secured. 



Mr. Pope: I will say that we have not tested any length of 

 time this double working. It has been our practice to set seed- 

 lings until within a few years. We find, no matter where we get 

 them, they are not uniform. Frequently ihe tree does not have 

 that vigor it should. We always remove it and put in a better 

 one. A few years ago we tried in place of setting seedlings to set 

 a good hardy tree and top work it. The trees were set in rows ; 

 one row of Taliman's and one row of Bellflowers and one row of 

 seedlings. Every Bellflower looks nice ; grand, good, vigorous 

 trees. In the se^ dling row th^y were beautiful trees ; the next 

 one has no growth and we are obliged to put in another row. 

 We have uniformity with the Bellflowers. The Talbnan will stand 

 our winters, — we are not sure of it in the seedlings. 



THE T.EYEKSE OF THE PICTUEE. 

 By S. T. Cannon, August;!. 



A very incorrect or at least superficial idea of many is, that tree 

 agents are a lazy, indolent set, uneducated and unrefined, with 

 plenty of brass and some conceit in their makeup, who cannot earn 

 a living at home, and so make it in their way to travel over the 

 country invading the peaceful habitations of the would-be-let-alone 

 kind, much to their annoyance and discomfort, living an easy life 

 with a soft job in their possession. I am like the minister who was 

 caught in Portland one Sunday, with only one sermon with him, 

 and made to preach to a then, for that day, pastorless congregation. 

 Of course he had to preach the only sermon he had,- which gave 

 them a real lively ''dressing down," as we would say, and then at 

 the conclusion added that the sermon was not written for tliat 

 congregation, but for ' the miserable sinners out to Saccarrappa,"and 

 so begged their excuses. So I beg your excuse to-day, as I have 

 but this one paper to reud, and I do not want to spoil your pro- 

 gramme. 



Those pi^rsons to which allusion has been made are full or their 

 stories adverse io the tree solicitor. 



JNIr. A. ordered a Clingstone peach because he thought it would 

 be more durable in his family, than a Freestone, and when it came 



