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the general farming. For generations insect pests were 

 not common. There ivere no good markets, and the 

 fruit sold as Invr as -JS cents a bushel from the wagon box. 

 In fact, it was u-rnHii in.n-r for the home supply than with 

 an idea of slii|i|.i!i- it tm market. Under such conditions, 

 it did U'lt iiiati. r ii halt ilii- crop was wormy, or if many 

 trees failed and died .a.li year. Such factsoften passed 

 almost unnoticed. The trees bore well, to be sure; but 

 the crop was not measured in baskets and accounted 

 for in dollars .and cents, and under such conditions only 

 the m.jst productive trees left their impress upon the 

 memory. The soils had uot und.ii;,.u.- surh a long sys- 

 tem uf rubbery then as m-w. Win ii ili-' "Id orchards 

 plant 



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ore]. 



Ofte 



the 



re to repeat 



of those ins, ..-is ivlurh fuli"» I'l. . t-i. II, .,l.i^ .■ .■,„„, „u- 

 nities. But th.' f,ir. .-..ini' in mn-Ti.'cd ,iiid f..r a time 



denly, their niinilH.r lir.-,ini..s .,,, L-r.-it tliat tln-y threaten 

 destruction, and tin- fainn-r l.mks .m in amazement. 



The orange is aiiotlier tree which has thrived so well 

 in the new' country that the spontaneous thickets of 

 Florida, known to be descendiints of early Spanish in- 

 troductions, are confidently believed by residents to be 

 indigenous to the soil. 



The progress of the plum in America nearly equals 

 that of the grape in historic interest. The small, spon- 

 taneous plums, known as Damsons, 

 the offspring of iiitmdm-tinns fro 



The oldest .■.,in', , .1 Mi, • I I ,. ( ,1 , ,:i. which 

 dates from Isij I , ijit- Con- 



cord, which 111. V .if the 



history is madr m ' 1 /, ■ -1 m i i ,Mir Nui : , , I'm its." 



There was no cummcn-ial strawlnrry culture in 

 America, worthy of the name, until the introduction of 

 the Hovey (Fig. 1088) late in the thirties. This and the 

 Boston Pine were seedlings of C. M. Hovey's, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. They first fruited in 1836 and 

 1837, and from them have descended most of the 

 garden strawberries of the present day. These were 

 seedlings of the old Pine tvpe of strawbcrrv, which is a 

 ,]i,:.,,, ,!,..,..,,,,l:,,,t ,.f tl,.. wdd .■t,.:,,,v!.,.rr- of Chile. The 

 ""-- '■ W'h"'|-- \ii- 1.- •! -"•,., ,1 -Mth.lohn 



■ :■ . ; nniugof 



werps we 



last century, but they 

 ■ies. ..t which the Ant- 

 riii- ■ n "!' r,is|,berry 



native red ami i I ., ■ . ;,■ ■ ■ , I; :.• ■• '■ j m to im- 

 press themselv.-^ n| -,1111,: II ill,,, ,11 i-(,ii. 



The blackberry , an ludiKrii.ju,, Aim ricau Iruit, first 

 commended itself to cultivation with the introduction of 

 the New Rochelle or Lawton, towards the close of the 



industry, with no 

 Y upon, and which 

 rthern hemisphere. 



The first named variety of blacKbery of which 

 -■ any record was the Dorchester, which was ex- 

 iMfme the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



h'wbcrry, a peculiarly American fruit, first ap- 

 iu cultivation early in the seventies in southern 

 under the name of the Bartel, which is a large 

 f the common wild dewberry of that region. It 



