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all, is scattered all over the country. When a nursery con- 

 tains from fifty to a hundred kinds of apples, thirty or forty 

 kinds of pears, ten to twenty sorts of cherries, thirty or 

 forty kinds of peaches, besides plums, nectarines, apricots, 

 etc., there will be some two or three hundred separate 

 varieties of fruit to be propagated each year, and of each 

 sort from a hundred to a thousand or more trees, according 

 to the business of the nursery. Two things are apparent 

 from this view ; first, that such unremitting and sagacious 

 vigilance is required that not every one is fit to be a nurse- 

 ryman; and, secondly, that not every nurseryman is a 

 scamp who puts upon you trees untrue to their names. 

 No doubt there are roguish nurserymen ; no doubt, too, 

 there are culpably careless men in this, as in all other forms 

 of business. But no one will be so charitable to nursery- 

 men as those who understand the difficulties of their busi- 

 ness ; and a mistake, and many of them, may occur in well- 

 appointed grounds, which no care could well have pre- 

 vented. 



We think this to be a business to which no man should 

 turn, except under two conditions ; first, that he will, if he 

 has not already, serve a faithful apprenticeship to it we 

 do not mean by regular indenture, but by practising for 

 several years in a good nursery until the prominent essen- 

 tial parts of the business have become practically familiar. 



The other condition is, that he make up his mind to see 

 to it himself. 



REMEDY FOR YELLOW BUGS. A gentleman informs us 

 that he has always saved his vines by planting poppies 

 among them. Those on one side of an alley, without pop- 

 pies, would be entirely eaten, while th^se on the other side, 

 with poppies, would not be touched. 



