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tongue persuades the unwary to give an order — for what he 

 supposes to be first class goods, true to name. Several 

 months after follows his confederate, delivering the goods 

 and collecting the cash. Very likely neither of the parties 

 own a single bearing tree. The stock is picked up here and 

 there about the country, perhaps bought at auction, at least 

 obtained in the cheapest market, knowing full well that it 

 will be years before you will find out your sad mistake, and 

 they will be out of harm's way, and chuckling over their 

 ill gotten gains. You in the mean time will go to work and 

 graft the trees with good harvest fruits, for the sole benefit 

 of the next generation. Our advice in such cases, would 

 be, deal only with persons having a good reputation for 

 telling the truth, and an abiding place where they can be 

 found, if any explanation is wanted. 



These facts it would be well to bear in mind, that all 

 trees, like animals, when moved a long distance, must 

 needs go through a season of acclimation. Also that all 

 varieties of apples, when removed to a milder climate, de- 

 teriorate both in the beauty of their brilliant color and their 

 sprightly acid flavor, and keeping qualities, although they 

 may increase in size. Probably no tree which is expected 

 to grow a crop of fruit, is so abused and neglected as the 

 apple. It will grow in almost any soil, yet it flourishes 

 only in good strong alluvial soil, and it is no detriment if 

 there are plenty of boulder rocks, to spoil the apples when 

 they fall, and here let us add an axiom, poor fruit should 

 never be raised, good fruit never shaken from the tree. 



Select a sheltered spot, among the hills, after the land is 

 well prepared by previous cultivation in hard crops, dig 

 good, large, broad holes 30 to 40 feet apart, loom the earth 

 well in the bottom and sides. Set tree the same depth as 

 it had been grown. Single out all small roots, pack the earth 

 firmly, continue to cultivate the land with hard crops, using 

 manure enough to insure good crops of vegetables. When 

 the orchard begins to bear fruit, the land may be seeded to 

 grass and pastured, best by sheep or horses, never by 



