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Show FRUIT TREE FRAUD. This is about tho season of the year wlien the peripatetic tree peddler, an! vendor of flowers ani Bhruba, from eastern nurseries, puts in bis appearance, and makes hia annual raid upon tho purses of the gullible gardener, and hurticulturist. We have not learned that any of them have yet iirrivf-.l in Utah, but they arc as certain to come m are the hook agents, tho crafl'hc.ppi'ra and other pcriod-cil inflictions; henco we issue the yoarly warning afuust them. Penplc hnre h-ive, h li'"? P"t. heeu Bna!i.un(:fu1l7 billt'iJ and robbed by easlcrn treo peddler, thai it ought not to he necessary to cutiiion anybody any-body against purchasing from these sharpers; but while some in-n cannot be choatcd twice in the eame manner, others will nibble and bite the aecund and third times at a lemp'in hii'. The chromos and cu(b show i i - trie canvassing books of the peddlery are designed specially to catch tho eyo and tickle tho fancy, while the agent rune his hand into your pocket. This fact has been demonstrated to many a poor man in Utah. It is safe to not buy trees upon the representation re-presentation of a stranger, or, from pictures of fruit. It U , a great deal easier for the Bt ranger to J lie than furnish a good healthy tree; I and as for the fr ait pictures, they ate I manufactured by the cart load, at a trifling cost. In nine cases out of ten if you have only these guarantees to protect you, you will bo cboatod, as' you will discover when it is loo late. Even were the Irees &i represented by the nursery "drummers," the obancea ( are largely against their living and growing in this region, being taken from somo eastern state where the soil and climate are entirely different from thoee of Utah. A large per centage of the trees brought here have t died outright, winlu other ate sickly and feeble. i.i.irly a!l of lha fruit j trees thut can bd successfully grown in Utah may be found in the nurseries of Salt Lake. These are acclimated and can he transplanted without serious risk. Besides, what ia highly important, iho nurserymen reside here, and have their names and reputations to protect, hence are ' pretty apt to tell the truth about the trees they aell. The local gardendrs, we are aware, seem to have a holy horror of letting people know what they have got, seldom or never having anything to do with printer's ink. This my bo owing to the modesty of the gentle men; but whatever the cime, we will take the liberty of informing the public that tho resident nurserymen generally have all the varieties of fruit trees that cin be profitably cul tivated here, and we will also say that in buying from eastern or western nurseries great risks of being cheated will be run, and the trees, in all probability, will not live. |