2 PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



samples which are so plentiful and so moderate in 

 price. 



If home-cultivators have not had a larger share 

 of profit in producing the fruit-supply in the 

 markets, where rests the fault ? A number of 

 answers, in the form of allegations, are ready to 

 hand, and have been so often repeated as to have 

 become common property. Here they are : 

 Obstructive land laws ; ecclesiastical charges ; 

 oppressive railway rates ; high market tolls ; 

 salesmen's exactions ; shop-keepers' extortions ; 

 free trade, and bad climate. Repeatedly have 

 these reasons been given in all sincerity, as the 

 causes of the great importations of hardy fruit. 



We can admit the full force of all these im- 

 pediments, but it will not be difficult to show that 

 something remains more accountable than them 

 all for the above-mentioned anomaly. What is 

 the great omission ? 



Mark well the answer. There is not one obstacle, 

 but three : namely, a lack of knowledge on the 

 subject of fruit, of enterprise in producing it in 

 its best form, and of art in placing it before the 

 public in the most attractive manner for arresting 

 attention and commanding purchasers. 



Granting to Transatlantic cultivators all their 

 natural advantages, which are possibly over- 



