MANY new trees, plants and seeds are grossly misrepresented by a few 

 dealers who trade on the reputation of reliable firms, often doing a thriving 

 business by selling trees and plants in localities where they very well 

 know that they cannot thrive; this and the substitution of inferior or wholly 

 worthless trees or plants under the name and reputation of good ones has been, 

 and is now being carried on persistently and systematically by several parties 

 who victimize those who deal with them by trading on the reputations of reliable 

 firms and good trees 1 . 



An especially cruel form^of this is the persistent pushing of the Spineless 

 Cactus, Crimson Winter Rhubarb and other tender plants for cold climates, 

 which cannot live where the ground freezes an inch in depth. 



It should be the duty and privilege of every good citizen to aid in exposing 

 and routing all who are obtaining money under these false pretenses. 



Having been in business almost forty years, millions of trees and plants 

 raised in my establishment are now bearing fruit, not only in the Western United 

 States, but everywhere on earth where the sun shines and trees can be grown. 

 Does this forty years' record of just dealing mean anything, and is it surprising 

 that such a reputation should be worth trading on? Counterfeit coins are not 

 counterfeited it is the genuine ones that are misrepresented. 



