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SUNSET SEED AND PLANT COMPANY 
TREES, WHEN RECEIVED FROM THE NURSERY, SHOULD AT ONCE BE OPENED AND HEELED-IN UNTIL 
WANTED FOR PLANTING, CARE BEING TAKEN NOT TO EXPOSE THE ROOTS. KEEP THE GROUND AROUND 
THE ROOTS WELL MOISTENED. 
'While wc aim to have all our trees true to name and liold ourselves 
ready on proper proof, to replace, free of cliarge, all stocU tliat may 
prove untrue to label, or to reluud amount orig^inally paid by tlie cus- 
tomer, it is mutually understood and ag:reed between the purchaser 
and ourselves that our guarantee of srenuineness shall not make us 
liable for any sum g-reater than that originally paid us for such stock as 
may prove untrue. 
GREAT many fruit trees will be planted during the coming season, and we 
wish to whisper a word of caution to those who will plant orchards. Thou- 
sands of circulars and advertisements announcing very cheap trees from eastern 
or foreign nurseries are flooding the country offering all sorts of inducements (ex- 
cept good stock) to the man who needs trees for a new orchard. Our advice is, 
emphatically, to buy none but California trees, grown by reliable nurserymen. The 
poorest investment an orchardist can make is to buy trees merely because they are 
cheap. The new tariff admits nursery stock free of duty, and there is already a 
lot of foreign trees on the market. Californians should give such nursery stock a 
wide berth and buy at home of our own nurserymen. They have everything that 
should be planted in this State, and there are many advantages in buying home- 
grown trees. Such stock is acclimated, does not require long shipment and may be 
bought of thoroughly reliable men; while that purchased of distant concerns may or 
may not be as represented. In case of the latter the difficulties of adjustment are 
very great and the liability to loss almost certain. ***** 
We do not wish this to be interpreted as an appeal in behalf of California nur- 
serymen merely, but an appeal to those planting orchards to get the best trees, 
which must necessarily be of California growth. We are raising too much poor fruit 
from poor trees already, and it should not continue. The best trees produced by 
the best nurserymen are none too good for the coming California orchards, but the 
best that can be had from outside sources may be the very worst investment that the 
planter can make. We therefore advise all who will plant orchards next season to 
place their orders early with our own nurserymen to the end that the result of their 
labor and expenditures may be an orchard of fine trees which shall yield a good 
revenue from choice fruit, and not a scrub orchard bearing only scrub fruit to be 
sold, if at all, only at scrub prices. 
A Caution to Tree Planters. 
[California Fruit Grower, November 17, 1894.] 
