Work with nature,
the way the old-timers did, to create a lush, easy-to-maintain
country landscape.
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1860
It has been a very general, almost universal desire among
tree-planters, to have large-sized trees from the nursery. One
person about to set out an orchard, wrote, "Send me man trees. I
do not want puny little children-but large, full-grown
specimens." Another said, "I want the largest trees you have - I
don't care much what kind they are - but give me tall ones - if
a rod high, all the better." "But," the nurseryman replied,
"smaller ones will be better in five years than these." "I don't
care, I want big ones; I may not live five years, and I want
fruit now." Three or four years after, the same planter called
again. Without waiting for an inquiry, the nurseryman
immediately remarked, "Well, I have some fine large trees which
I can furnish." "Don't want 'em! don't want 'em!" was the
answer, "I've had enough of large trees - they have cost me ten
times as much labor to set out as the small ones I took from
necessity. They have not grown one inch; are just the same size
I bought them, although I have doctored them and nursed them,
and they have borne me only a very few of half-grown worthless
fruit. The small trees have already outstripped them, and have
begun to bear large, excellent specimens."
