HORTICULTURAL PROGRESS 



growth of the fruit industry of recent years, 

 that while Cahfornia leads in fruit production, 

 the value of the product by the last census, 

 being $28,280,104, or 21.5 per cent of the 

 whole, New York produced in the same year 

 fruit to the amount of $15,844,346; Pennsyl- 

 vania, $9,884, 809; Ohio, $8,901,220; Michigan, 

 $5,859,362, these five states producing 52.3 per 

 cent of all fruit raised in the United States. 

 In the decennial period referred to above, 

 1890-1900, the greatest relative increase was 

 in plums, 334 per cent ; pears following at 246 

 per cent; apples, 68 per cent. 



Along with this rapid development of com- 

 mercial horticulture has come a marked revival 

 of and expansion of interest in intensive horti- 

 culture. Here lies marked opportunity for the 

 man who raises fruits partly because he wishes 

 them fresh for his own table, but more because 

 he has fallen in love with the occupation itself. 

 The revival of interest in outdoor life in the 

 past generation in America has no doubt had 

 an important bearing or individual fruit-grow- 

 ing on a small scale. It not only provides 

 means for considerable increase in revenue 

 through direct sales and, indirectly, through 



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