HINTS ON NURSERYMEN AND TREE BUY- 

 ING. 



HEN a man arrives at the conclusion that the 

 pUmting- of fruit trees will benefit, and add, pecuniarily, 

 to the value of liis land, he should next well consider 

 the matter, of whom his trees arc purchased. As a general rule 

 (with but rare exceptions) — we should advise : never to purchase 

 a tree at auction, or from those graceless individuals, parapatetic 

 nurserymen, who scour the country during the winter season, for 

 the purpose of inveigling farmers into purchasing trees. These 

 trees are, in most instances, grown purposely for such a market, 

 and are composed, mainly, of some free growing varieties ; but 

 the accommodating Charlatans who vend them, will attach labels 

 of any variety that may be required, even though the sort be ex- 

 clusively local and unknown to commerce. Thus, if the eager 

 purchaser, whose knowledge of estimable fruits is limited, wishes 

 an " Aunt Betsy," a kind that he has seen on a neighbor's land ; 

 and which he considers the apple, par excdlena, the parasite nurs- 

 eryman immediately books the name, and the purchaser actually 

 receives trees bearing the name of " Aunt Betsy," notAvithstanding 

 there is but one tree of that variety in existence. This specie of 

 Charlatanry is "carried on" to an almost unlimited extent. We 



