12 PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



yielding a rental of between 8 and 9 an acre, 

 and one of the tenants paying at the rate of more 

 than 11 an acre. Yet he has not a word of corn- 

 plaint, but on the contrary is well satisfied with 

 the profit he derives from his culture. The essayist 

 has inspected the plot, which is almost entirely 

 occupied with fruit-trees, enclosed with a hedge 

 of Raspberries, which this year gave a yield of 

 upwards of two quarts of fruit to the lineal yard. 

 This fruit-plot is remarkable for its productiveness 

 the result of high cultivation and well-chosen 

 varieties. 



A Landlord's Example. Passing from cot- 

 tagers to small farmers, landlords may find it to 

 their advantage to plant a few fruit-trees for striving 

 tenants, also for securing good tenants as holdings 

 become vacant. Again an example will be illus- 

 trative. A gentleman of property, who under- 

 stands fruit culture, has planted an acre of land 

 next the homestead of one of his tenants, with 

 Apples, Plums, and bush fruit, the extent of the 

 holding being about thirty acres. The trees are 

 all standards, the Apples eight yards apart, in rows 

 about ten yards asunder, the Plums closer in the 

 rows. In the lines with the trees, not in the 

 spaces between the rows, Currants and Gooseberries 

 are planted five feet asunder. The space between 



