one that would fill 



a one-horse wagon. 



With the small tree 



in ten years you 



will be five years 



ahead of the large 



one, and (the small 



one ) , being perfect- 

 ly health}-, will gain 



yearly over the 



large one in the 



same proportion as 



it has started. 



Almost every- 

 one ordering nur- 

 sery stock has a 



mania for getting 



big trees, and are 



angry if large ones 



are not delivered 



to them. This is a 



serious mistake. It 



is better for you to 



pay one dollar for 



a tree two years Photo 44> 



old than to have a six-year-old as a gift. There is a great advantage in procuring trees 

 from a good nursery, as nursery stock is transplanted from the seed-beds and, therefore, 

 have more feeders. But, by all means, take a small plant; in shade trees not more than 



an inch in diameter at the base, and in 

 fruit trees not more than half that size. I 

 repeat, it is better for you to pay more for 

 a small plant. 



THE SECOND GREAT EVIL. 



Following the one great mistake of 

 planting too large a tree, resulting in dead 

 center, as we have shown, comes the al- 

 most universal blunder of forming the 

 head too low. Nurserymen are, in part, 

 to blame for this misleading step. It is 

 taken for granted that the average nursery 

 firm know their business. Photo 62 pre- 

 sents to you a cherry tree as the head was 

 formed when it came from the nursery, 

 and you have but to stop and think for a 

 moment to recall the fact that most all 

 trees come in a similar form. While 

 growing in the nursery the leader was cut 

 off where the short cross-line indicates. 



Last spring (1901) two of my ac- 

 quaintances ordered at the same time, 

 from the same firm, and the trees came 

 together. There was no noticeable differ- 

 ence; cherries, apples, pears and all had 



