MISTAKES IN ORCHARD MANAGEMENT. 
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of mucli use, may seem too obvious and elementary, but I hope a few 
Fellows when they read our Society's widely circulated Journal, may be 
able to gain some hints of use to themselves or to their neighbours. 
A Nurseryman's Mistake. 
As our trees have to be propagated and trained in the nurseries 
before we can select and plant them, my first illustration (fig. 124) shows 
a young standard tree infested with American blight (fig. 126), which it 
brought with it from a nursery. The tree is one among others planted in a 
small orchard in what we know as virgin loam, where, as far as I could 
ascertain, there had never been fruit trees planted before. It was 
Fig. 125. — The same Tree after a Dressing with " Abol." 
planted two years ago, and the tenant informed me he had noticed the 
blight early in the first spring after it was planted, but, not knowing 
what it was, he did not trouble to dress the infested parts. Now, as it 
was practically impossible for the tree to become infested where it stands, 
there being no other fruit trees near, we came to the conclusion that the 
blight must have been introduced with it from the nursery, and w^e were 
satisfied that this had been the case when afterwards we paid a visit to 
the nursery in question. All of the trees in this small orchard had 
American blight, more or less. I know well that in our large nurseries. 
