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While they are all "tried and true" sorts, succeeding 

 generally in the northeast, New England and west- 

 ern fruit sections, remember that fruits, as a rule, 

 though not so particular as vegetables about soil, 

 seem much more so about locality. I would sug;- 

 gest, therefore, submitting your list, before buying, 

 to your State Experiment Station. You are taxed 

 for its support; get some direct result from it. 

 There they will be glad to advise you, and are in 

 the best position to help you get started properly. 

 Above all, do not buy from the traveling nursery 

 agent, with his grip full of wonderful lithographs 

 of new and unheard-of novelties. Get the catalogue 

 of several reliable nurseries, take standard varieties 

 about which you know, and buy direct. Several 

 years ago I had the opportunity to go carefully over 

 one of the largest fruit nurseries in the country. 

 Every care and precaution was taken to grow fine, 

 healthy, young trees. The president told me that 

 they sold thousands every year to smaller concerns, 

 to be resold again through field and local agents. 

 Yet they do an enormous retail business them- 

 selves, and of course their own customers get the 

 best trees. 



The following are listed, as nearly as I can judge, 

 in the order of their popularity, but as many of the 

 best are not valuable commercially, they are little 

 known. Whenever you find a particularly good 

 apple or pear, try to trace it, and add it to your list. 



