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Show Certified Trees Wanted by Many Fruit Growers That fruit growers have been glad to pay a premium for apple trees certitied to be true to name is shown by the increasing demand for certified stock, which sells about TO cents per trve above the price of other stock This spring two of the. largest nurser ies handling 'Hue to name" stock rnr short of certitied trees long before tin end of the season. The' demand by nurserymen for tin certification service has grown rapid ly. In 1021. one nurseryman asked foi certification and 2."sn trees wen sealed. Last year 13 nursery compa nles requested the service und lOii.Slt trees wei-e certified by Doctor Shaw and Mr. French. The certification plan has certalnlj saved fruit growers some disappoint ing experiences with misnamed trees In 1021 certification was refused tc 207 trees; last year the numlivr re Jected was 0,2"0 Aside from mis named trees In the nursery rows, tht seal on each tree undoubtedly ha:-prevented ha:-prevented many instances of the mix Ing of varieties after the trees were dug. Furthermore, nurserymen an human It Is probable that doubtful blocks of trees are not submitted foi cert i fit -it Ion. Massachusetts Agricul tnral Review. |