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that success requires all the skill and energy of 

 the most absorbed and driving business man. 

 In the South a professional man having land 

 near some line of quick transportation north, 

 might often ship vegetables to great advantage. 

 Judging from the price that early produce brings 

 here, it ought to pay them abundantly. 



But the fruit market of a large city is a very 

 different affair. This can be supplied from a 

 distance, and generally at a fair profit to the 

 producer. Multitudes are securing a good 

 livelihood in this business, and not a few are 

 amassing fortunes. There is nothing to pre- 

 vent the merchant or professional man from 

 sharing in these profits. Say one has an acre 

 or more around his country home, and has a 

 little taste and time for gardening. It is no 

 great task to put out fruit-trees and vines ; and 

 a Bartlett pear or golden pippin will thrive in 



some neglected corner where before only weeds 

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