5+ HOW TO SELECT A FEW VARIUCTICS. 
nurserymen’s catalogues of fruit trees, he becomes 
bewildered by the multiplicity of sorts minutely de- 
scribed and recommended for cultivation. Then if 
he decides to attend some horticultural exhibition, 
and make the seleetion from the choice kinds on the 
tables, the same perplexity arises, how to select five 
or ten varieties from these large collections. In 
most cases the specimens on exhibition average one- 
third larger in size than the main crop, in this way 
misleading persons not very familiar with fruits. In 
our own case, if we had confined our selection to 
five good varieties, instead of fifty, we should be 
several thousand dollars better off to-day, and have 
besides a uniformity in the appearance of the trees 
of our first plantings. In another instance that has 
come under my observation, the proprietor of an 
orchard of fifteen hundred trees informed me that it 
had made a difference in his receipts of three thou- 
sand dollars in ten years. 
At the request of different persons he was per- 
suaded to set out ten trees of one kind, fifteen of 
another, five more of something new and choice, and 
twenty of another sort. So he kept on, until when 
the fifteen hundred trees were in place, he had over 
fifty varieties. As the trees came into bearing, 
many of the sorts proved to be nearly worthless for 
market purposes. Having so many varieties, only a 
