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for fruiting are some of them trained to branch three to 

 five sterns from the ground, and others one stem, with 

 branches only a few inches from the surface, and top of 

 pyramidal shape a few feet high. Between all these trees 

 plants of Hovey s seedling strawberries are set, and one 

 spot of wonderfully small dimensions, for such a yield, was 

 pointed out, from which forty quarts were picked one even 

 ing, which sold readily for forty cents a quart. We should 

 say an acre at the same rate would produce a thousand 

 dollars. 



u Between the rows of nursery trees one or more rows of 

 cabbages are grown, by which a clean and continual culti 

 vation is insured to the trees, and a summer crop sufficient 

 to pay for all the labor, leaving the money for trees sold as 

 profit less the first cost. All of the quince stocks, and 

 many of the pears ready grafted in them, are imported from 

 France. One bill of freight covered 20,000 trees. &quot;Who 

 buys all the trees annually imported, or grafted, and culti 

 vated here, we cannot say ; but the proprietor assured us 

 that he had constantly upon his book orders ahead of his 

 ability to fill, not being willing to send out any but well- 

 rooted trees. 



&quot; Now, all this production from a waste spot has come 

 without premeditation ; the proprietor, while engaged in 

 other business, built a house here for his family residence, 

 and could not bear to see all around him a desert of waste ; 

 and so he began, first for his own use, to plant pear-trees, 

 and finding his neighbors wanted them, he enlarged his 

 production, until from an amateur he has become a nursery 

 man, and has made an oasis in the middle of the desert of 

 unoccupied, unfenced city lots, where whole farms have 

 been turned out to common grazing-ground for wandering 

 cows. 



&quot; By his side, a man has fenced in with wire several of 



