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try new things, why then you can get as many of those as 

 you see fit. and you will get very badly bitten once in a while. 

 There is one thing that the nurserymen are prone to do, and 

 particularly the small local nurserymen, and that is to create 

 demand as well as supply it. This is a mistake. In other 

 words, they will advise you to take varieties simply because 

 they have them growing, or can grow those varieties easier. 

 Some kinds will give to the nurserymen, ready for sale at the 

 proper time, 90 per cent, salable trees, while of other kinds 

 the nurseryman that gets 50 per cent, is getting a good, large 

 number of trees of that variety. Let the nurseryman have 

 a large ftock of a certain kind, and he is pretty apt to advise 

 you to use them. In this case the buyer should do his own 

 selecting, and make the nurserymen grow what he wants. 

 Any nurseryman will supply "now what you call for. Up to 

 five years ago you couldn't buy low headed trees in this state, 

 but our new methods of handling these trees in the orchard 

 have reduced very materially tl:e height at which we want 

 these trees, and, as I learned two weeks ago in Rochester, 

 there is not anyone but what will fill you an order for two-foot 

 trees or lower ; they will all come down to it if you want them 

 that way. That has been the objection heretofore, it has been 

 almost impossible to buy from the nurserymen trees as low 

 headed as you wanted them, that is a three-year-old tree, but 

 you can buy them to-day, and it is just as easy to grow a tree 

 headed two feet down, as four ; it is only a question of demand. 

 Too many of our growers put too much emphasis on the ques- 

 four or five or six dollars a hundred. Mr. Kinney told you 

 that an apple orchard is planted for 100 years, and a peach 

 orchard is good for 15 years, or ought to be; that is a very 

 low limit. Never mind a dollar or two more on a hundred 

 trees at planting, it is a very small matter. This question of 

 cheap trees is much advocated by the buyer ; don't be asking 

 for cheap trees so much as asking for trees that are good. 

 Now, cheap trees may include several other things ; you may 

 get a tree that is most decidedly cheap, and get some other 

 things that you didn't expect to get, in the shape of insects, 

 or diseases, or something of that sort; they generally come in 

 with cheap trees. Cheap trees are the kind that don't always 



