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saleable. The market is never glutted with them. There is never 

 enough. I have heard Doctor Underbill of Croton Point relate 

 his experience in the cultivation of the grape for the New York 

 market. His friends endeavored to dissuade him from going so 

 largely into the enterprise, for fear of glutting the market. But 

 he was too farseeing for that; and he has not been disappointed, 

 the fact being known that good grapes could be had, and there 

 are not yet enough to supply the demand, though the doctor sells 

 many thousand dollars worth every year. The people only want 

 to know that they can get good fruit, and it seems as if the more 

 you send to market, the more is wanted. There is no such thing 

 as glutting the market now-a-days. Suppose our large cities will 

 not consume all: suppose such a thing to happen; what will be 

 the consequence? Simply this: the communication with Europe 

 is so speedy now, that many fruits, deemed now too perishable to 

 send so far, would be exported to England and other countries in 

 a fine state of preservation. To some of our good fruits the mar- 

 ket of the world is open, and the quantity to be consumed is un- 

 bounded. 



I wish therefore to call the attention of farmers on the Hudson 

 river, every one of them, to the cultivation of the best fruits they 

 can raise. There is no sort of danger of overdoing the matter. 

 The whole river valley would not grow more than can readily be 

 sold, and no crop can be raised w^hich is so profitable. The ob- 

 jection urged by many that trees are slow in growing, and that it 

 will be a number of years before they become productive, is no 

 argument against me. The diflSculty may be obviated in many 

 ways, which will suggest themselves to the mind of any thinking 

 man; as by going gradually into the business; by growing those 

 kinds which come soonest to maturity, and soonest fail, in the in- 

 tervals of those kinds which are intended to form the permanent 

 orchard; or by connecting with the business some other kind of 

 husbandry, which becomes immediately profitable. In any of 

 these ways, and in others which will suggest themselves, the dif- 

 ficulties may all be obviated. 



I know of no branch of husbandry which can be so profitably 



