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little moiDent. This, of course, whs a trial upon a small scale; 

 and, as one swallow does not make a Summer, a single failure 

 may not condemn a variety. But the trial was made in good 

 faith ; and its results are better worth acceptance than the whole- 

 sale invention which fabricates, or distorts, to suit a personal 

 interest. When the scripture reads, — " My advice to the young 

 fruit-grower is, to plant what pays best !" — its apostle will 

 scarcely found a new dispensation. 



In this same epistle to rural New Yorkers, we find that the 

 scribe had- 



" planted and tried to grow the Orange, Hornet, and other choice 

 varieties of Raspberries, but could make no profit from them here ; 

 while ten acres of Brandywines, — dry, firm berries, not of best quality 

 for table use — yielded one season 26,300 quarts which carried well, 

 looked well and sold for $4,340, and, after deducting all expenses, left 

 a nett profit of $2,800, an average of $280 per acre." 



Shades of Cooraassie and Jersey I^elle of Scituate ! In vain 



"You coin your hearts, 

 And drop your blood for drachmas ;" 



There can be tricks taken in Horticulture, worth all your 

 vaunted pedigree. 



Our scribe does not think much of the Seckel ; for it does not 

 put money in his purse ! He prefers to grow the Wild-Goose 

 Plum, which partially resists the Curculio, rather than the 

 " Jefferson, Coe's Golden Drop, or the Washington ; — Plums of 

 the first quality," to secure which he would have to exert him- 

 self ! — somewhat of a hardship to a sluggard. 



Against all such counsels a Horticultural Society should set its 

 face like a fiiat. Individual members may go astray, or be mis- 

 led, in their hungry hankering after the flesh-pots ; but the 

 pathway of the organization is blazed, broad and clear, through 

 garden and orchard. Follow not after Baal, who may be asleep 

 or gone a journey ; build no altars to the unknown God ! You 

 may feed on quails and manna, or worship a Golden Calf, in the 

 wilderness. But it is only when you espy the Land of Promise, 

 in near perspective, that you can " come unto the brook of 

 Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of 



