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cheaper to purchase than trimmed trees. Such are 

 eminently suitable for plantation work ; the lower 

 boughs are removed as the bush fruits planted among 

 them rise in height, and extra strength is given to 

 the stem of the tree if some side shoots are left on 

 for a few years. 



Dwarf trees may be either maidens or cut-backs, 

 two years are preferred, and are of course the cheapest 

 form of tree; but cheapness is only a relative expression, 

 and is a matter which frequently leads the buyer 

 astray, as some trees of the same age and description, 

 on paper, are worth double the value of others, and a 

 good tree is always the cheapest in the end. Although 

 ill-grown trees may in careful hands be recovered, 

 they are better left alone. See that Plums have no 

 split in the stem, and no gummy places, and that 

 Cherries have no wounds in the stem, and are not too 

 crowded in the head. Pears and Apples should be 

 free from canker in the stems, and have that bright 

 shining bark which betokens well ripened wood. On 

 the other hand, if buyers deal direct with a respect- 

 able Nurseryman, who is a grower of these things, 

 and one who has a reputation to maintain (and not a 

 middle-man), they will be as well served as if they 

 selected their trees. 



Bush Fruits. — Currants and Gooseberries are so 

 much alike in growth, that in purchasing it is better 

 to specify a minimum number . of shoots, or buy by 

 sample at per 100, and ask the seller to have them 

 tied up in small bundles (not too many in one). 

 Raspberries are none the worse if only two feet high ; 

 fibrous roots being the great desideratum. 



