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rooted, and they will, in nine cases out of ten, suc- 

 ceed best in the orchard. But strange as it may ap- 

 pear, four persons out of six will choose a tall spind- 

 ling tree in preference to a stocky one, and, there- 

 fore, nurserymen are compelled to train trees to suit 

 the market, instead of what their experience and 

 judgment would dictate. Some of the practical ones 

 do exclaim, when coming into a nursery, "Why 

 don't you have those trees more stocky ? They are 

 too tall to suit me ! " The simple reason is, nur- 

 serymen like other producing agents, will raise what 

 their customers want. If it were a matter left to 

 their judgment, we should have more well grown 

 and healthy pear orchards than are now to be found. 

 Trees that have been forced too much in the 

 nursery row, as a general thing, do not succeed as 

 well as trees grown on land of medium strength. 

 As a case in point, we imported from France, six 

 years ago, one thousand Bartletts, two years from 

 the bud. Everybody who saw them, said they were, 

 without doubt, the finest lot they had seen. The 

 second year's growth averaged four feet long, and 

 the young wood looked as if it might be made into 

 serviceable walking canes. These trees were plant- 

 ed on a clay soil, well prepared and in good con- 

 dition. It would have produced three tons of timo- 

 thy hay to the acre, or fifty bushels of shelled corn. 



