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treated by hydrocyanie acid gas, as recommended and described from time to 
time in this Journal. If this treatment of the young trees is carefully carried 
out, there is every chance of their remaining clean for a considerable time after 
they are planted. 
Do not plant rubbish; only plant those trees that your soil and climate are 
adapted for. Do not try to grow fruits that will only end in failure, as no 
grower who is dependent on fruit culture for his living can afford to grow 
fruits that can be produced both better and cheaper by others under more 
suitable conditions; but he must confine his energies to the culture of those 
fruits that prove a commercial success. 
Tt costs just as much to prepare the land for and to plant, prune, spray, 
manure, cyanide, and generally look after an inferior variety of fruit tree, or a 
variety of fruit tree that is unsuitable to the climate, and from which no 
return of any value can ever be obtained, as it does to grow a variety that is 
suitable to the soil and climate, that will produce superior fruit, and for which 
there is always a ready sale. Therefore, I again repeat that no grower who is 
dependent on fruit culture for his living can afford to spend time or money in 
the growing and looking after unsuitable varieties of fruit trees. 
