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of an orchard of low-headed trees. The nurseryman, 

 who has been expecting you, will have a corps de reserve 

 to suit your case, even though his anxiety to serve the 

 majority of customers, and perhaps to gratify his own taste 

 for tallness, may have induced him to have a majority of 

 his trees made after the whip-stock fashion. Look at 

 these better trees, and among them proceed to select 

 thrifty, stocky plants, furnished with twiggy branches 

 from near the ground. It is not necessary that the side 

 branches should be large, much less that they should 

 be at all equal, or nearly equal to the leader, which should 

 always be supreme, among the branches. Here you may 

 be able to find the desideratum for which j-ou seek. All 

 well-grown trees, to be well-grown, must be developed 

 on all sides alike. With our modern views of the im- 

 portance of the doctrine of the individuality of buds, it 

 becomes necessary so to arrange the trimming of young 

 trees as to provide an equal and universal, or general 

 supply, over the extent of the infant tree, if we desire to 

 have it well and fully developed. We all know that 

 where young trees are crowded closely, or where they 

 are cleanly trimmed up and crowded together, they will 

 necessarily be tall, slender, and poorly developed, while, 

 if they have had room to develop themselves fully, and 

 have been encouraged to put out lateral branches, they 

 will, perhaps, be less tall, but they will be more stout 

 and stocky; and experience shows that such trees will 

 be more able to withstand the shock of transplanting, 

 and will be much more likely to grow well, just in pro- 

 portion to the number of vital centers they may possess ; 

 these centers are the buds, and the more widely they are 

 distributed over the plant, the better will they be able to 

 exercise their functions. This is not all — that most de- 

 ceitful and insidious of all the enemies of a young orch- 

 ard, the bark worm, seldom attacks any trees but such as 



