The trade in trees has now grown to be so extensive, that a large number of persons are attracted to it who are mere dealers, buyers, and sellers. Many of these are- honest, responsible men, who aim at doing a fair, honest business; but on the other hand, many of them are notoriously dishonest, and are perpetrating gross frauds upon the community. By deceitful means they procure the catalogues of respectable concerns, and represent themselves as agents authorized to solicit orders. They obtain their orders, and then fill them with whatever trash they can buy cheapest. People everywhere should be on their guard. We copy the following sensible article on this subject from a late issue of Moore'8 Rural New Yorker:

"In a late number of the Rural, we find an article quoted from the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, under the heading, 'Fraud in Fruit-Trees;' upon which, together with the editorial comments, I wish to make a few remarks. Such frauds as here spoken of, have been extensively practiced in this part of the State, the sellers invariably representing themselves as agents of the 'Rochester Nursery.' The purchasers, in most cases, appear to think there is but one nursery in Rochester, and do not even know the name of the person with whom they contracted. Of course, nobody is accountable, and no person's reputation has suffered by the transaction. A single example will a Black Tartarian Cherry. The trees, labelled according to contract, were delivered and paid for, and oar neighbor, not being very observing, did not discover, until the agent was gone, that the tree for which he had paid fifty cents, supposing it to be a Blaek Tartarian Cherry, was an Apple tree. It may be readily inferred that the 'Rochester Nursery' is not very popular, and yet I find no evidence that one of these trees ever came from Rochester. But be that as it may, I am confident that no nurseryman would hazard his reputation by sending abroad such trees on contracts as are brought in here, unless at the same time, he could hide himself behind some irresponsible agent.

"But what shall we say of the peculiarities of that 'tree manufactory located in an obscure part of New York State,' referred to by the Worcester Spy? Can we stretch our credulity enough to believe that trees can be root-grafted in winter, and grow like suckers for two years and then be large enough to ' cheat greenies V Surely nothing of the kind was ever before thought of in Massachusetts, or the writer would not have traveled to ' an obscure part of New York State' for an example With regard to these agents, I give it merely as a matter of opinion, and would like to be corrected if wrong, that the Rochester nurserymen have no agents abroad for whose transactions they hold themselves responsible.

"Now, if we do not wish to be 'gulled by this regular wooden nutmeg operation, nor to be verdant enough to purchase of pedlars,' how shall we obtain our fruit trees ? We should obtain them at nurseries, conducted by men of good standing and reputation, on whom we can rely. However satisfactory this answer may be, it is, I think, still liable to some objections. If nurserymen did not sell to dealers and agents at wholesale, but confined themselves to furnishing directly those who purchase for their own setting, is it not plain that the large nurseries of the cities, which now send out thousands of choice fruit trees, would be diminished to rods instead of acres! If no trees were transplanted except by those who would go to the nurseries and obtain them, there would not be one fruit tree set, where there are now twenty; and in many locations, at a distance from nurseries, our choicest fruits would remain long unknown. Another difficulty: a fanner comes to the nursery in the spring and wishes to obtain some fruit trees, but he is ignorant of varieties, and yet does not wish to trust the judgment of the nurserymen, but expects a verbal description of the different fruits to aid him in selecting.

"Now, during the season of transplanting, the busiest of all busy men are nurserymen; and arrangements should be made to encroach as little as possible upon their time at this season. Every man that owns an acre of land, should own a copy of the works of DowNInG, Thomas, or Barry; he can then judge for himself in reference to varieties.

"I concluded there is but one safe way of purchasing trees; and that is, to deal with those who are responsible, and have a reputation at stake; and whenever this can be done, it matters not whether a man buys at the nursery, or at his own fireside, he will be safe in either case. - A. M. Williams, Marcellus, N. Y".