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but think an acre of good fruit would yield a profit of four times 

 this amount. 



Fruit is also one of the greatest luxuries which God, in his 

 providence, has given to man. Have you not been at the festive 

 board loaded with all the dainties which wealth and taste could 

 collect from this and other climes ? And have you not seen that 

 those ripened in our own sunshine have been always preferred ? 

 What foreign fruit can compare with the mellow blushing apple, 

 the luscious pear, and the peach which fills the room with its fra- 

 grance ? And yet all these we may have with very little labour 

 and very little expense. If I am told that accidents often attend 

 the cultivation of fruit, which disappoint our expectations, I 

 would inquire what crop of the farmer is not liable to accident ? 

 Frost and drought, which often injure fruit, are no less injurious 

 to tillage crops. 



Ripe fruits also contribute greatly to health. I have seldom 

 known a family of children, accustomed to the daily use of ripe 

 fruit, who have much occasion for a physician. It prevents in both 

 old and young dysenteries, cholics, and various other ills which 

 flesh is heir to, and gives the form of health and strength so essen- 

 tial to our happiness. This is a cheap medicine, much cheaper 

 than that presented by a physician, which we must pay dearly 

 for, and his visit beside. 



Every farmer should be well acquainted with the operations of 

 grafting and budding. It is an art attended with no difficulty and 

 may be learned in one hour. A little practice will enable any 

 person to perform the operations with great rapidity and success. 

 I deem a knowledge of these simple arts so important, that I 

 would make the knowlegde of them an essential part of a young 

 gentleman's education. 



The peach is probably the most short lived tree of all our fruit 

 trees, but it is renewed with very little trouble. Plant a peach 

 stone in the place where you want a tree to grow, and it is very 

 sure to come up and flourish. The better way is, however, to 

 have a nursery. Take a k\v feet of ground in the garden and 

 in the fall plant a number of stones. At two years' growth the 

 tree may be budded with fruit which you know to be excellent, 



