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Remarks to Customers orous, well -matured trees or plants; and third, careful and judicious packing, without which all may be lost.We warrant our stock true to name and of quality represented, with the express understanding and agreement that should any prove not true to name, we will refund the money paid, or will replace it with other stock, but are not liable to damages other than herein named. 1 Good cultivation-by which we mean keeping the ground sufficiently fertile and at all times mellow and free from weeds, together with thorough drainage, either natural or artificialis absolutely neeessary to success.This, with judicious pruning, and proper selec- tion of varieties, suitable for the locality, will, in nearly all portions of the United States, produce gratifying results.The soil about Rochester being of a character best suited to produce the healthiest conditions of growth, that solid, firm texture of the wood, with abundant fibrous root, so necessary to successful transplanting, we are enabled to offer the choicest nursery stock with entire confidence to planters in all sections of the country.We give to our packing" and shipping carefnl personal supervision, and still further to protect our patrons, as well as ourselves, against loss in this direction, we employ the most skilled and compe- tent hands to assist us.We aim to keep fully abreast of an enlightened and cultivated taste, in the introduction of new and valuable varieties of fruit, and novelties and valuable acquisitions in ornamentals; accepting with pleasure everything that has real merit, we shall with equal readiness discard and discountenance the sale of worthless humbugs.By careful consideration of the wants of our trade and faithful attention to business, we are confident we shall continue to merit and receive a liberal share of the patronage of lovers and buyers of choice fruits and ornamentals.Fruit Department HOW OUR STOCK IS PROPAGATED Apples, Pears, Plums and Cherries.Our one idea in propagating stock is to solve the question "how can we grow the healthiest and hardiest stock ?"and not "how can we grow it cheapest?"By the process known as "root grafting" we could grow apple trees at much less cost than by budding, and for a time make a larger profit on them.If we sell to a man a second time we must please him the first time, and this we cannot do with root-grafted stock, as ordinarily done on piece roots.We make this exception, however, to the rigid rule of Nurserymen of less expe- rience, namely, a few and only a few varieties make just as strong roots and as straight, thrifty and in every way desirable trees by grafting on whole roots (not on piece roots) as by budding.Over thirty-five years experience and observation confirms this fact to us.Root-grafting is done as follows: Apple and pear seedlings of one year's growth are dug in the fall and packed in sand.In the winter, the tops are cut off and the roots cut into small pieces about 3 or 4 inches long.A small piece of twig called a "scion," taken from a tree of the variety desired to be propagated, is grafted, by a series of cuts, on one of these small pieces of root.The wounds are then tied up with a string, and the grafts packed in sand ready to plant the next spring in nursery rows.ROCHESTER, N. Y. Fruit Department • PropagationNot only do we exercise the greatest care in propagating and growing our trees, but we even import the greater part of our seedlings.All our pear and quince seed- lings, and a great part of our apple, cherry and plum seedlings, we get from France.Our apple seedlings which are raised here, are raised from French crab seeds, so that from the very seeds up to the perfect tree nothing is omitted which will help to produce a tough, hardy tree.The advantage in using the French seedlings is that they are almost entirely free from blight.