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and enquiry into the experience of others, we 

 very confidently affirm it as our belief that 

 the nurseries of New England have not, for 

 the last ten years, yielded a net profit equal 

 to fifty dollars per acre for the grounds which 

 they have occupied. 



Again, young trees are liable to many inju- 

 ries. Thousands are winter-killed. Others 

 die from the uncongenial nature of the soil. 

 The inserted buds are frozen ; the grafts are 

 dried up ; the trunks are gnawed by mice ; the 

 roots are thrown out by the heaving of the 

 soil ; the foliage and the young growth, in a 

 dry season, are often destroyed by lice and 

 other vermin. 



Thousands upon thousands of fine trees are 

 lost every year, in some or all of these several 

 ways. Many perish under the hands of un- 

 skillful or careless laborers. Many also, with 

 the best care, never become saleable, from 

 crookedness, deformity, &c., &c. 



Nor is this quite all. A fruit, this year 

 extremely popular, will tempt the nursery-man 

 to graft it very extensively. Three or four 

 years hence, when these trees are ready for 

 market, lo and behold ! further trial has fair- 

 ly and satisfactorily proved the variety to be 



