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excellent fruit, but being without a name, are not known 

 beyond their own neighborhood, and if no one takes the 

 trouble to introduce them to society, they will soon be lost 

 to the world. 



We offer in closing, a few miscellaneous reflections. 



Fruit trees are now assuming an importance in the com- 

 munity equalled by few products of the soil. 



The little care and labor that are usually necessary in the 

 attending growth, and in the gathering of the fruit, the ready 

 sale and remunerating prices of good, merchantable fruits, 

 particularly apples, often render the income of a few acres 

 of land a very desirable and pleasant addition to the profits 

 of the farmer. To be sure, for a year or two past, (in this 

 immediate vicinity at least,) the fruit trees have failed to 

 yield their wonted bounty, a liability incident to almost 

 every crop. But taking a series of years together, an orchard 

 in a well selected place, to which due attention has been 

 paid as to the selection of the kinds of fruit, healthy, hardy 

 stocks, and good healthy bearers; and to which ordinary 

 care has been bestowed on the soil in which they grow, and 

 to those insects, which in great numbers are so destructive 

 to fruit and vegetation, we think that no crop will yield a 

 better per cent, profit than apples, peaches and pears. 



The time may come when an abundance of supply will 

 result in a great diminution of price, but that time is far 

 distant. And even should it come in our day and genera- 

 tion, no great catastrophe would occur thereby to the farmer, 

 while a most invaluable blessing would be bestowed upon 

 the community. For, may it not be believed, that but few 

 things aside from the actual necessaries of life would contri- 

 bute more to enhance the comfort, health and pleasure of 

 the families of our cities and villages, to those particularly 

 in moderate and indigent circumstances, than a supply of 

 good winter fruit, of apples and pears. For who will dare 

 say that there is no social attraction in a bowl of apples 

 when surrounded by a merry band of swains and maidens? 

 and what lover of fruit will deny that the bowl of apples 



