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plant those trees that have taken the form and size that nature has 
designed for them. Dwarts being produced by a diversion of na- 
ture’s well established laws, are exceedingly uncertain and very 
liable to diseases and premature decay. Unremitting care and ex- 
traordinary efforts, alone seem to be the requisites for their con- 
tinued living and fruitfulness. 
Forrren or Eastern Treus.—The experience of thousands in 
Northern Iowa will full fully confirm the declarations I shall make 
on this subject. With few and far between exceptions, Eastern 
trees, (if we except a few of those varicties that in all tried local- 
ities are hardy as oaks,) have died by slow degrees, and become 
miserably less, while even the exceptions have continued for a 
much longer time unfruitful, than our home-grown trees. It is a 
fact generally admitted, and well established, too, that trees grown 
in the damp atmosphere adjoining lakes or other large budies of 
water, are illy prepared for the searching dryness of our cold and 
vaporless winds, whose sweeping power is exceedingly unlike the 
humid breezes that so gently fanned their younger life. Eastern 
tree peddlers, who come by chance—not being sent by those worthy 
nurserymen—in their deep anxiety for us, and with their ever- 
ready promptitude, are wont to recommend dwarf apple trees for 
our orchards,—and their equally useful wooden pumpkin seeds for 
our corn-fields. If aught is wanted from those excellent and reli- 
able nurseries, let an order be sent direct to headquarters, and inac- 
curacies or unfairness will be only the exceptions to their invariable 
rule of reliable and honorable dealing. 
But so important is the matter of procuring acclimated trees, 
that too much atteution to this subject cannot well be given. 
Even trees from well sheltered or low land nurseries in our own 
vicinity, ought never to be planted upon open or exposed localities, 
but only a limited number of the most hardy varieties should be 
bought from well exposed nurseries, to be set in those unprotected 
situations. Time will prove that the shortest road to plenty and 
profit in fruit growing, is found by “ pushing” a few well known 
hardy and productive varieties, and not in the untried paths of 
doubtful experiments. 
HOW AND WHEN TO TRANSPLANT FRUIT TREES, 
Much has been written upon this subject, and very little heeded. 
