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ship in the regular basket the balance of the season. I 

 think the best way is to cull your fruit close, and send 

 nothing but good fruit ; buyers will find out your stock 

 is good, and will always buy ahead, at an advance of the 

 market, for they can rely on it. A great many do not 

 cull, but work their small, imperfect ones in the middle of 

 basket, and then complain their fruit does not pay, or 

 the commission man is not doing what he ought to, 

 when the grower is in fault. The great secret is to 

 watch the market close. At times one is much better 

 than the other. Extra fruit pays in Boston when it 

 would not in New York. At times is better in Phila- 

 delphia. The grower must be awake to that. The man 

 with the best fruit from a well attended orchard and 

 posted in the market, gets the prices. Nothing like a 

 reputation for growing No. i fruit. The balance will 

 take care of itself. If you get an orchard started right, 

 and keep it right, it will be profitable, if you get the 

 trees you ordered. There is so much demand for 

 trees now, the nurserymen are planting any and every- 

 thing to supply the demand. Do natural trees ever have 

 yellows ? Never heard of any. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 20. 



Question i. Troth's Early Red, Mountain Rose, 

 Reed's Golden, Reeves' Favorite, Moore's, Mixon, 

 Stump, Shipley's Late, Beer's Smock. 



