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come true to varietal type from seed. Each tree 

 would be of a different variety. A discouraging 

 number of years are sometimes required for seedling 

 nut trees to come into bearing and some of the seed- 

 lings hardly bear at all at any age. The third group 

 of nurserymen, the careless group, taking advantage 

 of enthusiastic interest in a new subject, have capi- 

 talized enthusiasm, sending forth their literature 

 broadcast with misleading advertisements. Unfor- 

 tunately the careless ones seem to be the ones with 

 most money to spend for advertising purposes. A 

 part of the work of the nut growers' associations 

 has consisted in excluding the advertising material of 

 careless nurserymen from the advertising pages of 

 responsible publications. 



All buyers of nut trees must be warned. Careful 

 inquiry must be made before investing in nut trees, 

 otherwise the entire subject will receive a serious 

 setback from the wave of indignation from disap- 

 pointed customers. So long as perfectly reliable 

 dealers are to be found, buyers are urged to find 

 these dealers by methods that they would employ 

 when arranging for a financial investment of any 

 other sort. 



The Northern Nut Growers' Association invited 

 all nurserymen dealing in nut trees to send their cat- 

 alogues to the secretary for the purpose of having 

 unintentional mistakes corrected. A number of them 

 responded. Others have continued with misleading 

 circular material. 



