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of that " good time coming," when Pomona's best produc- 

 tions, instead of being luxuries accessible only to the few, 

 will be produced in such quantities, and furnished at such 

 ratps, as to place them within the reach of the whole commu- 

 nity as articles of common use. A glance at the nursery bus- 

 iness affords additional evidence of the same thing. It has 

 been estimated by one well qualified to judge, that the sales 

 of trees throughout our Union, amounts in value to upwards 

 of a million of dollars annually ; and the amount increases 

 with every season. Nurseries have been drained of every 

 thing worth cultivation, and very much of that which was 

 worthless. So great, indeed, has been and still is the mania 

 for tree planting, that well informed persons have expressed 

 fears that the whole matter of raising fruit with the view of 

 profit, would be "11114 into the ground." That fruit would 

 become so common, that the markets would be glutted, and 

 that as a speculation in the hands of the producer, it would 

 prove an entire failure. 



Let us consider for a moment how the case stands at 

 the present time. Are we really in danger of becoming sur- 

 feited with an overabundance of good fruit ? Has our expe- 

 rience during the past few years been such as to justify this 

 conclusion? We think not. So far from the market being 

 oversupplied, there are very many people who have never 

 even tasted of some of our finest varieties of fruits. They 

 are not as yet produced in sufficient quantities to get into the 

 markets at all. This is true of even our staple fruit, the ap- 

 ple. When we think for a moment that the Baldwin, an ap- 

 ple of which there is probably nearly as many raised in this 

 region as of all other marketable apples together, never wants 

 for purchasers in the years of its greatest abundance ; that it 

 always commands very high prices in the Spring, in common 

 with all late keeping apples, and that the constantly increas- 

 ing demand for many kinds of Winter apples, more especi- 

 ally sweet apples for shipping, is one which will for a long 

 time prevent the price of such fruit from reaching a point 



