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fumigation will injure them in this condition. There 

 will be kicks along the line, for frequently trees are 

 shipped and reshipped, sold and resold, several times 

 before they are eventually planted, and no doubt fre- 

 quently set a few miles from where they were grown. 

 At the other end of the season there are always lots of 

 people who forget all about ordering until the trees 

 begin to grow or come into bloom, and then it is too 

 late to fumigate safely at the usual strength. These 

 two extremes seem to block the way and prejudice 

 many nurserymen against fumigation. 



* ' We do not have to depend upon the notions of 

 other nurserymen hundreds of miles away. We can 

 dig, fumigate, and pack our trees when the right time 

 comes. This accounts, in part, for our not being * in 

 the ring,' as it were, fighting our own interests, as some 

 nurserymen have been doing. In some cases with a 

 large majority of tree growers in New York there is 

 really no connection or kindred interest between them 

 and the fruit grower. Their product is frequently sold 

 before digging-time, to go in car-load lots to other 

 nurseries hundreds of miles out of New York, and little 

 or nothing do they care what becomes of the trees after- 

 ward or whether they are planted in New York or in 

 South Africa." 



Protects customers. We are thoroughly convinced 

 that fumigation is most necessary in order that the 

 grower of nursery stock may supply his customers 

 with trees and vines absolutely free from all insect life. 

 While most nursery stock grown in this section is not 

 infested with San Jose scale, yet all is more or less 

 infested with aphis and other troublesome forms of 



