'2 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



In the following series of articles, every kind of fruit 

 grown in England will be mentioned, and their culture 

 described briefly, because all, in time, will be within 

 the reach of the cottager who is willing to do his best 

 at their cultivation. 



The selection of the species to grow must be left to 

 each cultivator, according to the character of the soil 

 and the requirements of the grower's trade. If wishing 

 to make the most from a limited area of dear land, with 

 plenty of time at disposal, he will try glass cultivation, 

 especially if able to handle carpenters' tools fairly well, 

 and to erect the " houses " mainly himself. What Mr. 

 Boddy has done at Penzance, or Mr. Ladds or Messrs. 

 Burton at Bexley, in the highest class of fruit, may 

 be done by thousands more throughout the country. 



To acquire the right habits and the requisite skill is 

 a matter of self-reliant resolution, mainly. There will 

 be, perhaps, many difficulties to encounter, but as it is 

 certain that fruit-growing must pay if undertaken with 

 j udgment and cautious enterprise, all efforts to attain 

 success will be ultimately certain of due reward ; it 

 may be that a second generation only will reap fully, in 

 some cases, what the present may sow. Let the growing 

 lads, therefore, have the full benefit of the following 

 hints ; let them study the gardening literature ; and let 

 them, in their earliest years, be put into such a position 

 that they may acquire a perfect knowledge of some 

 branches of this natural and most attractive of all 

 human pursuits. 



