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Pippin, cannot be raised in our part of New Hampshire." 

 (The same rule applies farther South.) ^'A different list is, 

 therefore, necessary for each locality, to be determined upon 

 by careful observation of the actual success or failure of each 

 variety." {These lists we projjose to prepare and include in 

 this work, so that the farmer, with the advice of his nursery- 

 man, may make such judicious selection of trees to suit his 

 purposes and location, as may he desirable.) 



"In planting an orchard, regard should first be had to 

 home consumption, so that the best variety of each season 

 may be produced, and not a profusion followed by a famine." 



In the preparation of lists of apples which have been p>roved 

 in the South to be abundant bearers and of first quality, and 

 which will probably, with such additions as every man will 

 make, with two or three varieties, seedlings, perhaps, from 

 the old homestead, which taste better to himself than any 

 body else, be found a sufficient variety for market and for 

 all useful purposes at home. ''Except to the mere amateur, 

 a great variety is a source of great trouble and little profit," 

 whether intended for market or home consumption or both. 



In a lecture by Dr. John A. Warder, of Cincinnati, deliv- 

 ered January 13th, 1868, we find the following appropriate 

 remarks on the subject of fruit culture: 



'' Upon the present occasion, I propose to occupy your at- 

 tention with a few general remarks upon the following ques- 

 tions : 



"Why do not our farmers have a plenty of fruit? 



"Why should not all who live in the country grow fruit 

 crops just as they now produce grain, grass and live stock ? 



"The first question may be answered very readily, for 

 most of those who have no fruits, it is simply because they do 

 not try to have them ; and this is the very natural result of 

 their ignorance of the means of obtaining an abundance of 

 those blessings upon almost every farm in the Ur.ited States. 



"The latter question may be answered by enumerating 

 some of the great advantages of fruit growing. These are 

 primarily the health of the families of the producers; where 

 fruits are freely consumed upon the table at all seasons of the 



