330 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
a quart of seed as many trees produced constitutionally tender, 
as the reverse. The mere fact of having a graft inserted at 
the crown of the root, or two inches below the surface of the 
ground, does not destroy the hardiness of a once hardy stock. 
A well proportioned apple tree should have its head formed 
low, about two feet from the ground—body thick and stocky, 
limbs deverging and upright, healthy, well-ripened growth. 
The whole tree to present a “ bright and shining ” surface. 
The purchaser must bear in mind that there is much difference 
in varieties of apple trees of the same age, for while a Sops of 
Wine, or Northern Spy, adapts itself naturally to the pyra¬ 
mid, and just to the fancy, the Jonathans and Golden Russet, 
are more spreading and often straggling. A judicious use of 
the knife, greatly enhances the beauty of such trees. It is 
Fig. i. 
Fig. 2. 
observed that apple trees of this form, (Fig. 1,) present but 
little body surface to be scorched by the sun or blighted by 
the piercing winds and cold, which is the reverse with those 
having long ? stems, (Fig. 2.) which are usually covered with 
half attached, shaggy bark, caused by a too great exposure to 
the intense rays of the sun ; and as the tree increases in age 
and size, its hard, scaly shell becomes more shaggy. The in- 
ec s take “note ” of the opportunity, deposit their eggs, and 
