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to pay for this necessary but costly material. We 

 advise all buyers to insist on proper packages, and in 

 cases of trees in bundles where not enough for a truck- 

 load have them matted as well. Where quantities 

 of trees are sent in trucks, straw protection should be 

 freely used, or bracken where it is plentiful. Purchasers 

 should recollect that most Nurseries are near cities 

 or towns, where such things as litter and straw are 

 expensive, though of no great value to a country 

 farmer. 



A few illustrations of Market Trees are given. The 

 Standards of Kent have 5^ to 6-ft. stems, and in 

 Worcester and Hereford up to 5 -ft. In the North and 

 Midlands, the stems are 3^ to 4j-ft. 



No. i. A Kent Standard 

 Tree ; the stem being 5 to 6-ft. 

 long. Kent Half-standards are 

 similar trees with the stem 4 to 



4i-ft- 



Standards are generally used 

 for grass orchards or for planta- 

 tions as top trees. 



No. 5 is a formed Fruiting 

 Pyramidal Tree. In some Nur- 

 series Nos. 8 to 1 1 are sold as 

 such at a cheap rate ; as these 

 (2 years) have not been pruned 

 or cut for the purpose, any 

 observer will see that real 

 " Pyramids " (as No. 5), which 

 would be 4 or 5 years old, 

 cannot be sold for the same 

 price, and the former are found NO. i. 



