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JOUENAL OF THE EOYAL HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
things, I'm not going to spend my money to improve other people's 
property, with very little chance of getting anything out of it myself." 
These were almost the exact words used by an owner and a tenant 
respectively in conversations within the last six weeks. A few years ago 
the owner had planted a new orchard of fine trees, had them securely 
fenced, some with iron and some with wood, and carefully tied so that 
they could not move about. On paying his tenant a visit this summer he 
found many of the trees with the ties broken, blowing about with every 
wind, the bark getting badly bruised, making wounds which would form 
Fig. 128. — Tkee too Old to transplant well. 
suitable attacking places for American blight or canker. That was a 
tenant's mistake. 
When visiting a tenant farmer he showed me some very fine, well- 
grown Apple and Pear trees, of the choicest varieties, planted last year. 
Discussing the cost of trees, planting, and fencing, I said, " Your landlord 
allows you timber, of course ? " Saith he, " Not a foot ; I have had to 
find it all myself." This was on one of the largest estates in the county, 
and the tenant, who has a general smithy and wheelwright's business as 
well, had used up his own spare timber and his own iron for "guards." 
This was the landlord's mistake ; or loas it the agent's ? Here was a tenant, 
willing and desirous of improving his orchards, receiving absolutely no 
