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that he is to sell at the top of the market in his locality, and that 

 he is to receive a certain per cent, on the selling price. He must 

 also send weekly statements of his sales. If the market should 

 get over-stocked at any time, at some of the places shipped to, 

 most dealers will gladly release a grower, for a few days, on a part 

 or the whole of the regular shipment, if wished, and the surplus 

 can be sent to those that are not overstocked. A home market 

 should not be overlooked, and the grower should use his own 

 judgment, as he will know the condition of the market. 



TEN YEARS IN" HORTICULTURE. 



A. J. Philips, West Salem. 



I believe it was Patrick Henry who said we have no way of 

 judging of the future but by the past. I am reminded that com- 

 mencing the year A. D. 1881, while we are contemplating the 

 advancements, improvements, profits, losses, failures and disap- 

 pointments that may characterize this, our chosen pursuit, during 

 the next ten years or longer, that it is fitting and proper that we 

 review some of these during the ten years that have passed since 

 1870. It would, of course, take volumes and tire your patience 

 to refer to all our experiences, proceedings, experiments, etc., 

 during these years. So the purpose of this paper will be to give 

 some instances in the writer's experience, more particularly in 

 apple-growing in Northwestern Wisconsin, than in horticulture 

 generally, together with some items from our Transactions by way 

 of a review, which may benefit us all. 'Tis true in reviewing in 

 this as in other pursuits in life, it serves to recall many mistakes, 

 blunders, unpleasant and unprofitable investments, while on the 

 other hand it recalls very many pleasant recollections, acquain- 

 tances and associations, that we would be loth to forget. The 

 fact is we hardly realize how often we change our minds on cer- 

 tain subjects until we look back and recall things that we have 

 done or recommended in years gone by. I will give some instances 

 before I close this paper, not only of my own changes, but also of 

 the changes and difference in views of other fruit men, which, no 

 doubt, are generally the result of our own experience. 



