The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-05
Fruit Trees.

r shonn' III III. experience o
over thirty years In setting trees, test
ing varieties, and dealing largely il
them, we should have learned some
thing Of this branch of horticulture
We certainly have learned where goo,
trees can be purchased, trees suitabl,
for this climate, and raised by men VIII,
are honest and reliable, who will no
misuse those who send them orders b,
sending poor culls or palm of worth
less varieties, or different kinds from
those. ordered.
What we may say In this article is il
the interest of our readers and not il
that oftree growers; ifthe latter shoult
derive any advantage from what w,
may say, we shall only be pleased i
they get some return for fair dealing.
One of the best nurseries in the Uni
ted States to purchase the standard va.
rieties of apple-trees suited to New
England is thai Of Stephen Hoyt q Son,
Of New Canaan, Conn. 1t Is probably
the largest establishment of the kind in
the east, many of the smaller nurseries
purchasing a large portion oftheir trees
Of them. One spring when we were
making u purchases there, they were
hlling an order for ten thousand apple.
trees for a celebrated nursery in Roch.
ester, New York, from their second
quality OF trees. These were quite large
and good enough to fill the orders OBJ
tanned by the travelling agents of the
nursery in question, as specified in the
printed order books such agents induce
those from whom they take orders to
sign.
Messrs. Hoyt cultivate very largely
standard varieties, such as Greetings,
Baldwins, ETC., and in giving an order
to them, one can procure as many of
these as he chooses, without being
obliged to have less desirable varieties
for orchard planting substituted for
them. For raising large, fine trees, of
well ripened wood, fine tops and good
roots, we have found no nursery so
good for apples trees as this. They al
so ut these nurseries exercise more than
ordinary care in taking the trees up
without damaging their roots, aud pack
them very carefully for moderate cost.
Our trees from them have always come
in good order and have proved satisfac-
tory.
For iron-elad varieties, our purchases
OF DR.. Hoskins, Newport, Vermont,
have been very satisfactory. For all
exposed situations, his collection of
tried varieties of Hybrid Crabs, Russian
and the hardest varieties, is decidedly
the best we know of, and his trees are
very handsome and well rooted, though
not large, as for such situations they
should not be. The Doctor raises his
trees and packs them with great care,
we believe, without extra charge for
packing. The Doctor is too honest con-
stitutionally to knowingly cheat a Gus
toner.
For pear-trees, those raised by Mr..
Macomber, North F~errisburgh, are the
best we have ever found. Friend
Macomber cultivates his own trees, has
had a very long experience in raising
them, as well as in testing varieties.
His pear-trecs are as thrifty as is desi.
rabls, and with decidedly the best roots
we have ever found on any, and the
greatest care is taken to preserve them
all and pack them very carefully. Like
DIR. Hoskins and Messrs. Hoyt, Mr..
Macomber is constitutionally honest.
We have mentioned these three estab.
because we have had dealings
with them for a number of years, and
know whereof we speak. They all
good trees in their lines, and all
sell at reasonable prices. Persons
sending orders to them may feel assured
that they will be honestly treated, and
get better trees, often at half the price
sometimes a fourth), charged by tray-
elling agents for stock much inferior
and that is far from certain to bear the
fruit expected.
Or all the humbugs practiced in SELL
ing fruit trees, one OF the greatest is
new and INFESTED varieties for
exorbitant prices, by exhibiting highly
colored pictures, and representing that
they can be purchased of no one else
thousands of such trees are annually
sold in Vermont by such practices, that
can be procured Of local dealers and
from reliable nurseries at one third the
cost paid these glib-talking, dishonest
agents. But there is one trouble in the
of responsible nurseries or expert
enced honest agents selling such at low
All fruit growers ofexperience
know that at least nine out of Ten of
these new varieties prove Improbable
and undesirable in most soils and in
most localities, and they will not unre-
servedly recommend them to their GUS
The unprineipled agent takes
advantage Of this by representing that
the reason they are not SO recommended
is because they cannot be procured by
the local agent.
Another story usually told by these
travelling agents is, they know where
local agent or dealer gets his trees
and knows he always buys Gull stock,
while the nurseries he sells for always
reserve their best stock to fill the orders
Of their travelling agents and sell the
cuilsto the local dealers and this while
all the orders they take can be filed ac-
cording to their printed orders or con-
tracts with second class stock. Agents
travelling tor Rochester and Syracuse
nurseries have told farmers I'm this vi