Note. — In planting all fruit trees it is well to familiarize yourself with 

 the blossoms, and see that trees with any defect in the stamens, as where the 

 stamens are dwarfed or absent, are jilanted near some variety having perfect 

 blossoms. This is very important in apple culture, in peach culture, in pear 

 culture, in fact, in the cultivation of all fruits; although in large orchard cul- 

 ture, with many varieties, failure, from the nature of tlic surroundings, don't 

 often happen. In peaches, for example, as the Fox's Seedling has a better 

 blossom than the Crawford's Late or Reeves, plant them near each other. In 

 plums, the Wild Goose plum has an imperfect blossom and needs a plum with 

 a perfect blossom near it to fertilize it, and so on. With these precautions I 

 believe the weaker blossoms will be less likely to be injured by frost. — ^J. J. B. 



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