FOREWORD 



THE frmt-farm, of which this book is a record, 

 lies in the Lake Shore Valley, on the southern 

 shore of Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania, a region 

 rich in horticulture. The book is a record of many 

 years* experience at home, of much observation 

 abroad, and is offered as a modest contribution to a 

 subject of greatly increasing interest in our own 

 country. Successftil horticulture implies ceaseless 

 attention and obedience to the laws of climate, 

 planting, and cultivation, not excluding such 

 elements as soil-fertility, labor, administration, 

 and birds. The biography of any well-conducted 

 fruit-farm is a chapter in the history of success. 

 Horticulture in America is opportunity, but as yet 

 we are merely at the threshold of knowing how to 

 use the land. The illustrations are from photo- 

 graphs taken — with three exceptions — on the fruit- 

 farm whose history is here related. 



F. N. T. 



Indian Arrow Vineyards, 



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