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2. Select, although at a higher price, trees 

 which have been re-set twice or (better yet) 

 three times since they came frorn the seed. 

 You will find that such plants possess much 

 finer roots than others, and that they will 

 suffer far less check from another transplant- 

 ing. 



3. In general, avoid trees which made but 

 little growth, the summer proceeding your 

 purchase. 



4. Observe where the tree is grafted. 

 Generally, the nearer this point is to the fruit- 

 bearing parts the better. We should, however, 

 rather prefer trees grafted at or below the 

 surface of the ground to those where the 

 operation was performed between that point 

 and the point of branching-out. But a fine 

 healthy tree worked at any point, is not 

 simply on that account to be rejected. 



5. The trunk of the tree should be straight, 

 smooth, and stocky. It should branch out, at 

 the proper height, and the branches should 

 extend upward and outward, forming a hand- 

 some open top. If the limbs are crooked, 

 entangled, crowded and crosswise of each 

 other, it may be difficult for you ever to get 

 them into the form you wish, and therefore 



