DESULTORY REMARKS. 9 



fell, even the young trees from which we had hoped a future supply, 

 fallen victims to the severity of our winters, and the recent short and un- 

 propitious summers 5 and we believe the destruction has extended over 

 the whole of New England. We still trust, however, upon hardy stocks, 

 and with the influence of more genial suns, to be able at some future 

 time to exhibit a larger number of specimens than we have ever yet 

 done, of this fruit, the most exquisite product of the temperate regions. 



As a source of income, it is believed that no pursuit could more safe- 

 ly be relied upon than Ihe cultivation of fruit for the markets of the prin- 

 cipal cities of the United States. Many fearful predictions have been 

 uttered by those over prudent people who foresee loss and disappoint- 

 ment in every undertaking j but still we find the demand for this luxury 

 increasing, while the prices obtained for the finest sorts have not dimin- 

 ished, but rather advanced. It is true that the taste of the public has 

 grown fastidious, but to provide for this the grower has only to become 

 more scrupulously nice in his choice of varieties, of which the different 

 Horticultural societies have made known a multitude sufficiently excel- 

 lent to gratify the most refined palate. 



Owners of land would find it for their interest to raise, in orchards, on 

 an extended scale, the finest large winter baking pears, either for the 

 supply of our own markets, or for exportation to the South, where the}' 

 meet a ready sale at a price which will amply repay the cost and trouble 

 of cultivation. 



We well remember the discouraging advice that we frequently received 

 at the beginning of our course as a cultivator. We were loo old, it was 

 said, to expect to reap, in our own person, the fruits of our labours ; 

 yet in spite of these and many other prophecies of the same nature, we 

 persevered, and have not only had the satisfaction of raising a great va- 

 riety and abundance of fine fruit, but of producing, from the seed, the 

 Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry, Nectarine and Currant. At one 

 time we planted a peck of the Siberian Crab Apple, and part of the 

 plants oeing suffered to bear, the countless varieties in the size, shape, 

 and colour of the fruit were well worthy the attention of the curious j we 

 believe not one specimen of all that we noticed precisely resembled that 

 from which it originated. At another time we collected in the market at 

 Boston, a large quantity of peach-stones 5 these were planted in close 

 rows in poor land, which caused many of them to bear the fourth year. 

 We tasted of the fruit from more than six hundred trees j they were of every 



