CROPS AND PROFITS 



market, and the populousness of the insect 

 world will warrant it. 



For my own part, so far as regards a market 

 crop of winter fruit, I have decided very thor- 

 oughly in the negative. Not that it cannot be 

 grown with sufficient care; but that it can be 

 grown far more cheaply, and of a better qual- 

 ity, in other regions. Summer fruit is not so 

 long exposed to the depredations of insects, 

 nor will it bear distant transportation. Its 

 freshness too, gives it a virtue, and a relishy 

 smack, which warrant special pains-taking. 



I find in an old book of Gervase Mark- 

 ham's, "The Countrie Farme" (based upon 

 Liebault), that the apple tree "loveth to have 

 the inward part of his wood moist and sweatie, 

 so you must give him his lodging in a fat, 

 black, and moist ground; and if it be planted 

 in a gravelly and sandie ground, it must be 

 helped with watering, and batling with dung 

 and smal moulde in the time of Autumne. It 

 liveth and continueth in all desirable good 

 estate in the hills and mountains where it may 

 have fresh moisture, being the thing that it 

 searcheth after, but even there it must stand 

 in the open face of the South." 



The ruling is good now, with the exception 

 perhaps of exposure to the South, in regions 



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