IMPORTANCE OF JUDICIOUS SELECTION. LARGE TREES NOT DESIRABLE. THRIFTY YOUNG TREES PREFERRED. REASONS FOR THE PREFERENCE. ADVANTAGES OF SMALLER TREES. LOW HEADS AND THE PROTECTION BY LATERAL BRANCHES. PERSONAL INSPECTION AND SELECTION RECOMMENDED. DIGGING THE TREES. CAREFULLY AVOID MUTILATION OF THE ROOTS. PUDDLING. TYING AND LABELING. PACKING. AVOID EXPOSURE TO SUN AND WIND, AND FROST. TREATMENT OF FROZEN TREES IN COLD WEATHER. HEELING-IN. MULCHING. MAKING RECORD. DRIED TREES, HOW RESTORED. SEASON FOR PLANTING. BANKING THE TREES. MULCHING. DISTANCE BETWEEN TREES. DEPENDENT UPON THE HABIT OF THE VARIETY. ASSORTING THE VARIETIES ACCORDING TO SIZE. CLOSE PLANTING. COMBINATION PLANTING. DIFFERENT CROPS. APPLES AND PEACHES, OR CHERRIES. SMALL FRUITS BETWEEN. ORDER OF PLANTATION. QUINCUNX. ASSORTING VARIETIES. CONVENIENCE IN HARVESTING TO HAVE EACH KIND GROUPED TOGETHER. We now come to the consideration of a matter of great importance to the success of the future orchard--the selection of the plants we are to set therein. No matter how favorable the site, how good the soil, nor how thorough the preparations may have been; all may be spoiled by a bad selection of trees, and subsequent disappointment will be the consequence. Formerly, and in some sections of the country even now, very erroneous notions prevailed upon this subject. Large trees, of several years' growth in the nursery, were preferred by those who were planting orchards: trees, ready to bear fruit, were eagerly inquired for, and preferred; even if they had been crowded together so as to be drawn up to a great hight without any lateral branches, and had formed their heads at the hight of seven or eight feet, so as to be out of the way of browsing by cattle and horses, they were the more admired by the purchasers. Now-a-days there is a great change in the sentiment of tree-planters as to the age, size, and shape of the trees that are to be set out.