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the nursery, showing No. 1 and No. 2 trees, June-budded and 

 autumn-budded peach trees, one and two year old grape vines, 

 currants, etc. The various metliods of propagation and training 

 from the seed to time for planting in orchards were described in 

 detail. The young trees were pruned for planting, and the sub- 

 ject of pruning trees in the orchard up to two or three years of 

 age was discussed by the speaker ; when he called upon Prof. 

 J. W. Clark to discuss the best methods of pruning trees, in 

 which he had become very skilful by the care of the largest apple 

 orchard in this State. 



The principal reason why this subject was presented is that 

 there is not a single nursery in the State where the fruit trees sold 

 are largely grown by the nurseryman selling them ; and there 

 seems to be a field for young and enthusiastic men in supplying 

 from our own soil more of the immense quantity of trees that are 

 planted every year. In every village and hamlet the nursery 

 agent from distant nurseries comes annually without fail, with his 

 highly colored plates of fruits, wonderfully superior to anything 

 ever before seen ; and hundreds of thousands of trees and shrubs 

 are sold to our people that might be grown on our own soil, where 

 they could be delivered to the planter in a condition that would 

 make their growth and perfection, with a fair amount of care and 

 skill, a certainty. In almost every large town or city is to be 

 found the local nurseryman, who supplies such local trade as he 

 can secure ; but the greater part of his stock, too, is first grown 

 in some New York or other distant nursery, and these, after a 

 year or two of growth in the local nursery, are sold as home- 

 grown stock. Such trees are more valuable than those generally 

 supplied by the travelling agent, and give good satisfaction, but 

 they are far less valuable than well-grown trees planted and 

 budded within an hour's ride of the land on which they are to be 

 planted. These facts led the writer to present this subject at the 

 winter meeting, in the hope that many young men — for there is 

 room for considerable competition in the business — might become 

 interested in the work which, with its many trials, has a great 

 fascination for the true lover of horticulture, and might prove a 

 source of large profit and of great benefit to the fruit growers of 

 the State. 



To further this interest, the Agricultural College now offers an 

 elective course of study in nursery work to the members of the 

 senior class, and a short winter course is to be open to young and 

 old the coming winter, where any one who wishes may take up the 

 study of any line of horticulture, including special work in nursery 

 and orcharding. With an equipment of the largest collection of 



