196 State Horticultural Society. 



CHOICE FRUIT PAYS. 



Writing of their success, hundreds of fruit growers, whose sales are 

 largely local, cite instances where very niggardly buyers have been 

 transformed into lavish buyers by persistent offerings of the choicest 

 fruit. Take it home to yourself and ponder on it as a suggestion for in- 

 creasing your own profits, remembering always how much greater your 

 own craving is for luscious, well ripened specimens of the best varieties 

 than for tasteless, carelessly selected and shiftlessly grown fruit that 

 actually offends the taste. The habit of eating fruit will certainly develop 

 in a family or community if the grower, dealer or market persistently 

 and regularly offers the kinds that "taste like more." — American Fruits. 



Tear out old and good for nothing trees ; plant good ones of the sorts 

 which suit your local conditions. — Green's Fruit Grower. 



There is grain to sow, 

 There are weeds to hoe, 



And garden beds to make; 

 There are trees to prune 

 From morn till noon, 



And yards to smooth and rake. 



There are plants to set 

 And shade and wet, 



And poles for peas to string ; 

 And all the day 

 Earth's voices say, 



"Come, haste; for this is Spring." 



— Farm Journal. 



HIGHER STANDARD IN AMERICAN HORTICULTURE. 



The time has come when the orchard interests of this country have 

 grown to such proportions that they can no longer be held under the 

 old ways of growing and marketing fruit, and hence, the following 

 address, by G. T. Powell, before the 1905 meeting of the Western New 



