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common sweet corn is fit to pluck. It is, 

 indeed, one of the very earliest kinds of 

 maize, and should be cultivated in every 

 kitchen garden. 



Some of our readers will be glad to learn 

 where these seeds may be had genuine. 

 The Portugal cabbage is, we believe, for 



sale by Breck & Co., seedsmen, Boston; 

 the early sweet com at the Agricultural 

 Warehouse, 10 Green-street, Albany, and 

 the other vegetables at Thorburn & Co.'s, 

 New-York ; and they may also, no doubt, 

 be obtained of various other seedsmen in 

 the larger cities. 



PROFITS OF FRUIT GROWING— NO. 2. 



BY B. G. BOSWELL, PHILADELPHIA. 



When so many farmers are complaining of 

 small profits, we think it proper to say a 

 little more on the profits of fruit growing. 



Charles Dubois, of Fishkill landing, 

 Dutchess county, N. Y., has taken thirty- 

 three dollars for the fruit grown on one 

 Frost Gage Plum Tree in one season ; and 

 last season received ninety dollars for the 

 crop of apricots from one tree. 



A lady of Kensington, Pa., has received 

 seventy dollars in a season from one apri- 

 cot tree. 



A gardener, near Boston, has produced 

 eight thousand quarts of strawberries to the 

 acre, and received twenty cents per quart 

 for them, — thus realising sixteen hundred 

 dollars per acre. 



An acre of raspberries on Long Island 

 has produced nine hundred dollars worth 

 of fruit in a season. The expense of culti- 

 vating, picking the fruit, and taking it to 

 market was one hundred and fifty-seven 

 dollars, — leaving a handsome nett profit of 

 seven hundred and forty-three dollars; a 

 larger sum than thousands of farmers re- 

 alise from a farm of an hundred acres. 



Mr. Zieber of Reading, Pa., has made 

 forty-two gallons of pure grape juice wine 

 from one Isabella vine in a season, worth, 

 when one year old, one dollar and fifty 

 cents per gallon — or sixty-three dollars; 

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being the interest on one thousand and 

 fifty dollars. 



An apple orchard of one acre, principally 

 of the Rhode Island Greening, in Wayne 

 county, N. Y., produced two hundred bar- 

 rels of selected fruit in 1847. Another or- 

 chard, of three and one-half acres, produced 

 six hundred and fifty barrels. Althouo-h 



the fruit was sold at extremely low prices 



being so far in the interior of New- York 



yet the nett proceeds were one hundred 

 dollars per acre. In the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia, such a crop of fruit would have 

 paid a nett profit of three hundred dollars 

 per acre. 



John G. Gardner of Nantucket, Mass., 

 has produced the cultivated cranberry three 

 hundred and twenty bushels to the acre, 

 and found ready sale at four dollars per 

 bushel; thus realising twelve hundred and 

 eighty dollars per acre. 



Many persons will say — " Well, large 

 profits may be obtained on a small scale 

 but nothing can be done on a large scale." 

 We happen, just now, to think of some 

 large operations in fruit culture. Major 

 Revbold, of Delaware, together with his 

 sons and sons-in-law, own a number of 

 farms, and have about a thousand acres in 

 peach orchards. They think nothing of 

 sending five thousand baskets of peaches 



