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PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



"two year olds" are worth their extra cost 

 and are excellent trees to plant. Older trees 

 can be had, set with fruit buds, at enhanced 

 prices, but usually the younger trees overtake 

 them in a very few years. When trees bear 



Fig. 2. BUSH APPLE TREE. (Page 19.) 



prodigiously in a year or two after planting, 

 and astonish inexperienced observers, who forth- 

 with go into ecstasies on the profits of fruit 

 growing, it may be taken for granted that they 

 will not "wear"; they are enfeebled in infancy,, 



