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PREFACE TO THE SECOND 

 EDITION. 



IT is nearly a year since I left this work with 

 the printer. The first copy of the book which I 

 saw was procured in a foreign land; and now that a 

 second edition is called for, I find myself again in 

 fields and orchards of another country. These per- 

 sonal remarks are not of themselves worth making 

 here; but they shall be my excuse for writing a few 

 contrasts of American and European fruit-growing. 



Classified in respect to the objects in view, there 

 are two kinds of fruit-growing, that which desires 

 the product primarily for home use, and that which 

 desires it primarily for market. Of market or com- 

 mercial fruit-growing, there are again two types, 

 that which aims at a special or personal market, and 

 that which aims at the general or open market. The 

 ideals in these two types of fruit-growing are very 

 unlike, and the methods and the varieties which suc- 

 ceed for the one may not succeed for the other. The 

 man who grows fruits for the special market, has 

 a definite problem. The product is desired for its 

 intrinsic qualities; and special products demand special 

 prices. The man who grows fruit for the world's 

 market, has no personal customer. The product is 



