Budding a block of 500,000 apple trees. Men competent to do this scientific work are paid big wages. 
Budding and Other Phases of Scientific Nursery Culture 
Budding is the most important of all the branches of nursery culture. On it depends the future 
profits of every fruit grower who buys our nursery stock, and as we recognize our responsibility 
to our customers, you may be sure that Mr. A. E. Maloney who personally oversees EVERY BIT 
OF THIS WORK, KNOWS where each bud comes from, that it is in proper condition and that it 
is properly budded. 
We select, as far as possible, all scions for budding from bearing trees of superior fruiting 
habits. It has been absolutely demonstrated that when young trees are thus propagated, they have 
the same characteristics as the trees from which the buds (scions) were cut. In addition careful 
budding is the way we can positively guarantee that you will receive varieties that beartrue to name. 
That’s why MALONEY TREES never disappoint the fruit grower when they come into bearing. 
Now, you see why budding must have the careful oversight and directions of some experi¬ 
enced man who recognizes the responsibility of his work. The value of every tree in the nur¬ 
sery row depends on this one man, and, as we have said before, this one man is Mr. A. E. Ma¬ 
loney, president of our firm, brought up in the nursery business from a boy of fourteen, given 
responsibility by a practical father. Our President is considered an authority on budding and 
stakes his reputation and the success of his firm on every tree we sell. Needless to say our bud¬ 
ding is done right. 
In order to produce healthy, vigorous trees with plenty of vitality, they must be propagated 
on the best grade of branched root seedlings, and grown on suitable land, which must be built up 
for the reception of the stock. This requires from two to three years. After the trees are dug 
for shipment, the land on which this stock is grown, must be rested and cropped. As nursery- 
land around Dansville is held at a very high figure, you can see that the land will be properly 
built up only by nurserymen who own their own farms. We have four farms which are handled 
in above described manner. 
All this care and expense would avail us little unless our trees were properly dug and rightly 
handled thereafter. We are equipped with a steam digger for doing this work correctly, and 
have our large and commodious packing houses where the trees are delivered, properly graded, 
and carefully packed, and it is by this painstaking method that we have built up the largest 
wholesale nursery business in New York State. 
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