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cultural regions, the more especially as these fruits 

 are propagated by buds and the good old varieties 

 remain with us ; and I look with suspicion upon all 

 those which are recommended indiscriminately, in- 

 definitely, generally, and for everything, and equally 

 for all regions, because their descriptions cannot be 

 truthful and cannot be founded upon experience. I 

 believe that the time is now at hand when a man 

 can establish a more lucrative nursery or plant busi- 

 ness by giving his novelties careful and discrimina- 

 ting tests, and by telling what they are not good for 

 as clearly as he tells what they are good for, as 

 he can by possessing himself of the desire to intro- 

 duce a certain number of novelties each year, and to 

 paint them in such faultless colors that every thought- 

 ful man knows that the descriptions are false. 



