834 ‘‘ NIGH-WORKED” TREES. 
grown and stocky. It is but a small item, when you 
consider the difference it will make in the orchard 
in the course of ten years. In case you decide to 
have part dwarfs, do not buy those that are high 
worked. If buyers were more careful, and refused 
to take trees when the pear bud has been set six or 
eight inches above the surface, nurserymen would 
soon abandon this practice, which 1s now too preva- 
lent. It is less labor to set a bud six inches from 
the ground than two, because the operator does not 
have to lean over so far; but if those high worked 
trees were unsaleable, proprietors would pay more 
attention to this branch of the business than they 
now do. It is well known to all intelligent fruit 
growers, that in planting dwarf pear trees, the union 
between the pear and quince should be at least four 
inches below the surface. In case this rule is carried 
out with a tree “high worked,” say five to eight 
inches above the surface, the roots are buried so 
deeply, as to be out of the reach of the effects of the 
sun’s rays, and the free circulation of air; both of 
which are so important to assist in the healthy 
growth of the young tree. 
For either standards or dwarfs select low trained, 
stocky trees, even if you decide to remove the 
lower branches after they are in place. I have 
found, from experience, that such trees are better 
