Otf FRUIT TREES. 



at a convenient distance from a large town or village, 

 would yield an annual profit equal to any production 

 of the industrious husbandman. , An instance has been 

 adduced, in the town of Dorchester, a few years since, 

 of one hundred and sixty barrels of apples being pro- 

 duced from less than two acres, the estimated value 

 of which, including the grass mowed under the trees, 

 is three hundred dollars per acre. In what branch of 

 culture can the husbandman realize a more ample and 

 gratifying reward for his labour and attention ? 



It is a circumstance encouraging to the cultivator, 

 that. ; 4n add ii ion to the usual markets, a very consid- 

 erable export has taken place lately to Europe, and 

 that the flavour of our apples is highly estimated 

 there." In every rural establishment, a fruit orchard 

 should be considered an indispensable appendage, as a 

 source of real emolument, and as contributing to health, 

 pleasure, and recreation. It will be conceded, that, in 

 the whole department of rural economy, there is not 

 a more noble, interesting, and beautiful exhibition, 

 than a fruit orchard, systematically arranged, while 

 clothed with nature's foliage, and decorated with vari- 

 egated blossoms perfuming the air, or when bending 

 under a load of ripe fruit of many varieties. It is a- 

 mongthe excellences of a fruit orchard, that it affords 

 a salubrious beverage, an adequate supply of which 

 would have, a happy tendency to diminish, if not su- 

 persede, the consumption of ardent spirits, so destruc- 

 tive to the health and moral character of our citizens. 

 "The palate," says Mr. Knight, an English horticultu- 

 ralist, "which relishes fruit, is seldom pleased with 

 strong fermented liquors ; and, as feeble causes, con- 

 tinually acting, ultimately produce extensive effects, 

 the supplying the publick with fruit, at a cheap rate, 

 would have a tendency to operate favourably, both 

 on the physical and moral health of the people." It 

 is presumable, that the period is not far distant, when 



