THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 2i2i. A. M. Smith. 



keeping^, which was all he was able to do. 

 My physicians had told me I never would 

 be strong- enough for hard work, but I was 

 determined not to give up but to do some- 

 thing ; so I got me an old horse and secured 

 an agency for an insurance company, and 

 for selling books and trees and some other 

 things, and I traveled the country, when I 

 was able, for about two years. Gradually I 

 gained my health and strength and paid 

 off my debt. Having previously vi.«ited 



Grimsby and made up my mind that it would 

 be a good location for the fruit and nursery 

 business, I persuaded the late C. E. Wool- 

 verton, in the spring of 1856, to set apart a 

 portion of his farm and embark in the 

 business on a small scale. We planted 

 about 600 peach trees in orchard and about 

 6,000 young apple trees and some pears, 

 plums, cherries, etc., in nursery, in all 

 about eight or ten thousand trees. Ours 

 was the tirst peach orchard of any extent 



