Of  all  the  avocations  in  society,  there  is
none  more  responsible  than  that  of  the  nar-
seryman. In  the  various  kinds  of  business
pursued  by  our  fellow  men  there  is  more  or
less  opportunity  for  deceit  and  fraud. In
the  Nursery  business  there  are  peculiar  fa-
cilities for  deception. The  purchaser  de-
pends entirely  upon  the. representation  of
the  Nurseryman,  as  it  regards  the  varioas
trees  and  plants  which  he  obtains. If  t'le
Nurseryman  is  an  honest  and  intelligent  man
and  has  managed  his  business  with  the  strict-
est system,  having  his  grounds  so  arranged
as  to  have  each  variety  of  fruits  and  plants
in  its  separate  department,  and  has  also
given  his  personal  attention  to  the  grafting
budding,  &c.,  of  the  different  varieties,  so
there  shall  be  no  chance  for  mixture  or
confusion,  then,  we  say,  the  purchaser  may
and  will  obtain  the  varieties  of  fruit  trees,
&c.,  he  desires. But  if  the  nurseryman  is
not  honest  and  lets  his  business  run  to  loose
ends,  depending  upon  the  help  he  hires,  the
purchaser  will  be  disappointed. And
what  disappointment  can  be  greater  than
for  one  to  purchase  a  large  collection  of
fruit  trees,  prepare  the  ground  and  plant
them  with  the  greatest  care,  watch  over
aud  nurse  them  year  after  year,  trim  and
train  them  into  nicely  formed  trees,  with
expectations  that  they  will  repay  him  for
all  the  care  and  anxiety  bestowed  npon
them,  and  hoping  in  the  evening  of  life
to  enjoy  the  fruits  that  have  been  cultiva-
ted and  nourished  by  bis  own  hands,  and  as
he  thinks  be  is  about, to  enjoy  them,  finds
that  he  has  been  deceived. That  the  mon-
key paid  for  the  trees  has  been  squandered
and  worse,  that  the  use  of  the  ground,  the
labor  be?towed  upon  them,  have  been  lost,
that  the  affection  which  had  been  formed
from  his  long  intercourse  with  them  must
be  turned  into  hate,  and  the  trees  in  all
their  beauty  must  be  cut  down  because  they
do  not  bear  good  fruit. Instead  of  the
finer  varieties  of  fruits  which  he  bargined
for. he  finds  he  has  only  the  poorest  seed-
ling trees. 