132 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE: 



tioii, with all the bloom and freshness of October ; they were 

 kept by simply hanging up on the vine in a cool cellar. Mr. 

 Chas. Lee of Penn Yan had a bushel of fine Wagener 

 apples ; J. H. Watts of Rochester, beautiful Northern Spy 

 apples ; and J. M. Mattison, Tompkins co., splendid King 

 apples. 



We learn that the discussions at the meeting were confined 

 to the subject of planting fruit trees on an extensive scale 

 for market, and that a variety of facts were presented show- 

 ing it to be more profitable than any other crop now culti- 

 vated in Western New York. As the Society intends to 

 publish its transactions, we shall refer to them when we 

 have examined their contents. 



The Profits of Fruit Culture. — Every month or two 

 the newspapers chronicle some remarkable statement, show- 

 ing the immense profits of fruit culture, and no doubt they 

 are taken as the truth by many who read them. We have 

 never doubted that good profits may be realized from the 

 growth of fruit, and have ourselves given some instances of 

 unusual success ; but at the same time we have never held 

 out any inducement that they were to be ten times as great 

 as any other crop. And those credulous individuals who 

 believe all they read, and rush into the cultivation of fruit 

 with the expectation of realizing a fortune at once, will find 

 themselves sadly disappointed in the results. We state this 

 because we think such stories injurious to the future prog- 

 ress of fruit culture. Disappointment in any business often 

 leads to its abandonment altogether, but when no unreasona- 

 ble expectations have been formed, there is no danger of this, 

 and the individual zealously pursues his calling till crowned 

 with success, which is nearly always sure to come in the 

 end. As illustrating the common mode of making up these 

 exaggerated statements, we copy the following from the 

 New ITork Times : — 



" The Ellsworth (Maine) American tells us that Mr. C. A. 

 Nealey, of Eddington, Penobscot co., recently took into the 

 village, one morning, forty bushels of pears, and retailed them 

 out in less than an hour, for two dollars per bushel, or eighty 



