thousand dollars per acre, for the land which 

 they have shaded. And let no one anticipate 

 a glutted market, so long as our manufac- 

 turing villages, yearly increasing in number, 

 are still but imperfectly supplied, and partic- 

 ularly so long as the fruiterers of London 

 palm off the products of British orchards, un- 

 der the attractive recommendation of " Amer- 

 ican apples." 



Much of the rocky hill-side land of New 

 England, now considered unavailable for oth- 

 er uses than that of pasturage, could, with a 

 moderate outlay, be converted into excellent 

 orcharding. It seems very strange, that our 

 farmers should think so lightly of this very 

 feasible operation, now that the demand for 

 cider no longer requires to be supplied. A 

 bushel of Baldwins, never worth less than 

 forty cents, may be grown with but little mofe 

 expense than it formerly cost to raise a bush* 

 el of nondescript apples, which, in the palmiest 

 days of the cider-press, never were worth 

 more than ten cents. Most marvelous mis- 

 takes have been made, in cutting down old 

 cider-orchards, instead of saving and grafting 

 over frhe most healthy of the trees. Many such 

 trees, thus* altered into good fruit, scraped, 

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