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have brought, at least, $100 more the present season. Perliaps 

 for a term of years, other varieties might be as profitable as 

 the Bartlett, but for profit in all kinds of fruit raising, we 

 would recommend that a specialty be made of a very few vari- 

 eties. Of course, the case Avould be different with the person 

 who desires a succession of fruit through the whole season for 

 family use, or with the amateur who expects to show his hun- 

 dreds of varieties at the exhibitions. 



So witl\ apples ; if any one, who has cheap land, is satisfied 

 that it will pay to plant apple trees, or to take care of those 

 already planted, will it not be wiser to plant the Baldwin and 

 Hubbardston, than to try all the varieties recommended in a 

 N. Y. catalogue ? 



Several persons, back a few miles in New Hampshire, have 

 proved that peaches can be raised profitably in this vicinity. 

 The one who has been the most successful, had seven acres 

 planted in 1857, upon the top of a hill, on what could be called 

 " pine land" — a sandy or gravelly loam. He believes peaches 

 can be raised with as much certainty as any fruit, if planted on 

 such land — high — alcove the " frost line." His trees have 

 borne regularly, nine years out of ten, and the fruit has brought 

 him i 4 to $6 per bushel at his nearest depot. Those who have 

 noticed the price of " selected peaches" in Boston market, for 

 the last few years, can judge whether such a crop will " pay." 



So with strawberries. One person in our immediate vicinity, 

 has made a specialty of the Wilson strawberry, having some 

 four or five acres devoted to it, and has cleared enough in one 

 year to buy a small farm. 



But these cases do not happen by chance ; they are the re- 

 sult of careful, thorough investigation, and above all, persever- 

 ance. He, who after planting his orchard or garden, falters or 

 gets discouraged, because of a few canker-worms, borers, 

 mildew or drought, is umvorthy of the fruits which a bountiful 

 Providence would bestow upon us. 



Committee — T. C. Thurlow, G. W. Gage, John A. Rogers, 

 0. S. Bailey, James Wilson. 



