Photo 43. 



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 healthy , 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. 



L/ast 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 



Photo 45. 



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