AGE AT WHICH TREES SHOULD BE PLANTED. 495 
On motion of Mr. Plumb, a committee of five, consisting of 
Messrs. Plumb, Sticknej, Moodj, Leitch and Gripper, were 
appointed to name the judges at the next state fair. 
AGE AT WHICH TREES SHOULD BE PLANTED. 
Mr. Stickney offered the following, which, after discussion, 
was adopted : 
Resolved^ That we recommend that the most suitable age for planting trees 
is at two and three years. 
In the discussion that arose on this resolution, Mr. Tuttle 
said that there was some difference in trees. Some are better 
at two and some at three years. It was a wrong impression, 
that trees so very old were the best. When men send to him 
for the best trees, he always sends them two or three year 
trees. He had himself planted the Fameuse, some two and 
some three years old, and the small ones were soon as large as 
the others, and now some are double the size of the large ones, 
and are worth much more. Men invariably want two year old 
trees after they have once tried them, who before would not 
set a small two year old tree. 
Mr. Adams agreed with the last speaker, and said that his 
experience was that a small tree, that can be planted with all 
its roots, was worth much more than one that must necessarily 
be mutilated in taking up. While the large tree was recov¬ 
ering from its loss of roots, the small one will be making top, 
and equal the other in size. 
Mr. Kellogg thought this the most important subject that 
had been before the meeting. Old trees that are damaged by 
removals, are never as healthy as young ones that receive no 
such shocks. He had rather have a graft six inches high than 
a tree six feet high. He thought the cheapest and best way 
was to set grafts that had not yet struck, putting two or three 
in a place to secure the grow-th of one and then thin out, 
rather than to set any trees that had grown. 
