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relieve the congested Italian quarters in Buffalo 

 and other interior cities, and may well prove a 

 satisfactory solution of the Italian problem of 

 New York city, when further extended. The 

 Italian will only work in a gang. He is too civil- 

 ized to go out by himself among strangers. But 

 when settled in groups with their families, Ital- 

 ians succeed famously as farmers. 



The plum, the pear and the quince may be 

 made profitable under conditions like those for 

 peaches, and recently cherries have come into 

 prominence, although a more precarious crop 

 than any of the others. Care must be exercised 

 in choosing a site for the cherry orchard, high 

 ground and free circulation of air being neces- 

 sary. Because of poor packing, Eastern cherry 

 growers have suffered from competition with 

 California growers, who have reduced packing 

 to a science, although Eastern cherries have a 

 better flavor. 



The persimmon is another fruit not generally 

 grown ; in fact the native variety was little known 

 until the Japanese persimmon was introduced. 

 Some of the native wild varieties are of excep- 



