The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-03
r the ADVERTISER.
TREE PEDI.ARs.
NJ. .tiHcertiSer

Ohio tree pedlars are canvassing
this section of the country, selling
all kinds of fruit trees on "improved
roots;" Strawberry plants that don't
run, the Justly celebrated rose,
Utah hybrid cluster cherry, and other
like fne things. Then they set at
the moderate price of one dollar each,
apple trees grated on the plum
stock IA sure preventive against the
Borrer) and all other things a. pro-
portiouate rates. Strange as it may
appear to every intelligent horticul-
turist, they are meeting with unpar.
| allied success. Comment is useless,
as some people will only learn from
experience - dearly bought as a
matter of course. The transactions of
our State Horticultural Society are
not read Ivy those who are gulled, Meth
er is the Des Moines i'omoiogical
Journal, either Of which ca ltions its
readers to beware of nursery stock
from the cart, offered by parties
whom they are not acquainted with,
etc, etc. Nevertheless, there are
those that sooner or later fall victims
to one with an oily tongue a good
talker, Especially when assisted by
nice lot of sample fruits grown in
other climesl, whom they know moth
ing about. But says one, who said
to me the other day, 81 believe | am
taken in not for very much though
only $1,000. Is this State report,
you speak about, rcliable?' etc. |
would answer such a question by
asking if any report that is submit
ted to the farmers, and published at
the expense of the State, reliable?
There is appropriated one thousand
dollars annually from the funds of
the State for the purpose Of supper
ting the Society, which meet the lst
of each January, and as the proceed
ings of thoir meetings are published
in book form for the benefit of the
planters, every farmer is entitled to a
copy, which he can secure by merely
asking for it copies for years back
can be found in any printing oilice.) J.
My advice to all land owners, is, to
to get all the information they can
from every reliable source, and they
will be less likely to patronizc east
ern nurseries and more likely to en-.
courage home enterprise-but 10
those who never buy tree from an
Iowa orchard for fear they will get
swindled by not getting first class
stock, claiming for the reason that it
is not to be found in any nursery in our
State, let mo say to those, that horti-
culture is one Of the marve,s of ma
ture-the most careful attention, skill,
money and time, is required to pro-
duce trees loaded with fruit. Perhaps
they have not got patience to wait
for the time it requires to pass, but
they are eager to get an orchard,
anxious to take little instructions in
the good work in which God was the
first to engage, etc. My advice to
them is to pay no attention to what
they say, who now are about to "pass
in their checks" having spent a
lifetime experimenting in farming a
list of fruit that is adopted to this
peculiar climate of ours, but "go in"
and learn fruit growing, at one dollar
a lesson. 1t is better than not to
learn it at all. say without fear Of
successful contradiction, that eastern
grown trees never have been as sue
cessful as those propagated in this
State, as every one who has fully tes-
ted them will attest.
w. f. WEST.
Mcchanicsville, July goth.