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Plant-growers often led a peculiar fondness for their 

 plants, and so strong does this attachment become, that 

 they would rather lose their intrinsic value than let them 

 pass from tlieir care. Such feelings. are the natural pro- 

 ducts of that insatiable desire so general in mankind to 

 know and realize the full development and results of their 

 labors. This is particularly the case with those who grow 

 fruit-bearing plants, especially such as require several years 

 to come into bearing. And when this time arrives, it is 

 often found that a single crop js of more value than a 

 number of the trees when at a salable size. Specimen 

 grounds in nurseries ai'e constantly enlarging, until the in- 

 come from the sale of fruit is often sufficient to satisfy the 

 aspiration of the proprietor ; consequently he relinquishes 

 other departments and becomes only a fruit-grower. It is 

 no uncommon thing at the present time for individuals to 

 own fruit farms of a hundred acres, and there are a few 

 much larger. Even w^ith the small fruits, such as are of very 

 recent introduction, there are several plantations of from 

 fifty to one hundred acres. These fruit farms are not 

 located exclusively in the Eastern States, as in former 

 times, but they may be found near all of our larger cities, 

 from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and even west of 

 that. The sura total of the amount received from the sale 

 of fruit in the United States would be an item worthy of 

 being placed on the records of our financial history. 



Our American people appear to have full faith in the old 

 adage, " in union there is strength." The idea has become 

 a national one ; the results hare been so satisfactory, that 

 the principle is being applied to nearly every department 



