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you will find at least four men in this hall who will tell you 

 that is a very foolish question. Mr. Gardner, j\Ir. Hoyt, Mr. 

 Perry and ^fr. Barnes wall say, ''Come to us." Every one 

 of them is correct. Any one of these men can furnish you 

 stock that is grown anywhere within these United States. 

 Therefore, this topic cannot be discussed without to a certain 

 extent taking in some other issues. Perhaps the first one that 

 comes up wdiich makes any difirerence to us is, ivhcrc are we 

 to go for our nursery stock?. My owm plan has been, in 

 handling and using it for several years, to get it where I 

 could most satisfactorily. I am not a bit particular personally 

 whether the trees come one, five, ten, fifty, or a thousand 

 miles, so long as I can get what I want that will be satisfac- 

 tory to the condition or place I expect to use it. There is 

 only one limit, as least as far as I know, in getting stock. 

 Whoever goes w'est of the great lakes strikes into the prairie 

 type of soil, which is different from anything this side of 

 that line, and those trees do not do as well east, as the trees 

 from this state. New York, Michigan or northern Ohio. I 

 have never found a man who said it made a particle of differ- 

 ence where you got peach trees, and I don't believe it does. 

 The soil upon which the peach is grown is nearly always 

 sandy land, and they all do well on that kind of soil. There 

 is one thing certain, you can get as good stock from your 

 local nurserymen as )OU can anywhere else. If you insist on 

 the local man growing the particular kinds you want, they 

 will grow them for you, if the soil in this state will do it. 

 There is no excuse for a man being humbugged buying nur- 

 sery stock. The man who gets bit to-day buying trees of 

 any kind does it wilfully, or simply because he is trying to 

 beat somebody else ; in other words, he is taking them of some- 

 body that has offered trees very cheap, or something in that 

 line, and he is the man that is to blame. Every one of our 

 newspapers gives you a list of g-ood nurserymen in every 

 state, and men who are reliable. If I am buying and want 

 standard stock, I very seldom send an order to a man who 

 advertises many new things ; let us buy from the man who is 

 advertising the general standard stock, and as a rule you will 

 get satisfactory trees in nearly every case. If you want to 



