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rooted, dnd they will, in nine cases out of ten, suc- 
ceed best in the orchard. But strange as it may ap- 
pear, four persons out of six will choose a tall spind- 
ling tree in preference to a stocky one, and, there- 
fore, nurserymen are compelled to train trees to suit 
the market, instead of what their experience and 
judgment would dictate. Some of the practical ones 
do exclaim, when coming into a nursery, “ Why 
don’t you have those trees more stocky? They are 
too tall to suit me!” The simple reason is, nur- 
serymen like other producing agents, will raise what 
their customers want. If it were a matter left to 
their judgment, we should have more well grown 
and healthy pear orchards than are now to be found. 
Trees that have been forced too much in the 
nursery row, aS a general thing, do not succeed as 
well as trees grown on land of medium strength. 
As a case in point, we imported from France, six 
years ago, one thousand Bartletis, two years from 
thebud. Everybody who saw them, said they were, 
without doubt, the finest lot they had seen. The 
second year’s growth averaged four feet long, and 
the young wood looked as if it might be made into 
serviceable walking canes. These trees were plant- 
ed on a clay soil, well prepared and in good con- 
dition. It would have produced three tons of timo- 
thy hay to the acre, or fifty bushels of shelled corn. 
