SUMMER MEETING. 103: 



they are stacked up one box on another and permitted to remain un- 

 disturbed until there is a disposition to color, when they are sorted 

 directly into kegs for shipment — at all times handling with as much 

 care as if they were eggs. 



"Those desigaed for home use are taken to the cellar and taken 

 up into a warmer temperature to ripen when wanted, which they will 

 do in a day or two, with fine flavor. The masses of the people have 

 been led to regard it as a worthless fruit, while a few like myself have 

 been growing it for market with quite a degree of confidence, which^ 

 with me, is increasing annually." S. D, Willard, 



In Am. Gardening. 



The Outlook in the Fruit Industry 



Is discouraging only for the producer of poor fruits. Careless and 

 slovenly growers are being fast weeded out of the business. As one 

 of our exchanges puts it, there is no money in trying to grow poor 

 fruits cheap, allowing nature to do all and man nothing. What nature 

 does in such cases is to multiply insect enemies and fungus diseases. 

 If nature is to do all, then nature will take all and leave the lazy mem- 

 ber of the firm nothing. On the contrary, if man will work with 

 nature, combating insects and diseases, the fruit will be so much finer 

 that it sells itself at good prices, while the poor fruit can hardly be 

 given away. The best fruit can now, under carefal treatment, be pro- 

 duced more cheaply than it was in a state of nature. Xow it can be 

 guarded so as to be pretty sure of a crop every year. All prominent 

 fruit-growers are agreed on taking this view of the situation. More- 

 over, it has its exact parallel in the vegetable industry. — American 

 Gardening. 



