12 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



weeds ? Not less ruinous is the neglected culture 

 of newly planted fruit trees ; and the loss in the 

 delicious qualities of their subsequent products, as 

 well as in delay, is incredibly great. But when 

 selection and culture have been attended to, fre- 

 quent instances are witnessed of valuable returns 

 in three to five years from setting out. A Bartlett 

 pear tree, six feet high and two years from trans- 

 planting, bore a peck of superb fruit ; a Julienne, 

 even younger, yielded nearly the same ; a Jonathan 

 apple, removed to the orchard when not larger than 

 a carriage- whip, produced a bushel the fifth year; 

 and many similar cases might be named. But, in 

 every instance, the best treatment was given. 



PROFITS. 



Those with whom pecuniary considerations are 

 of importance, may be interested to know the re- 

 turns yielded by the best varieties. A cultivator 

 of fine fruit, well known to the writer, obtained in 

 market eight dollars for one year's crop, grown on 

 two fine early young cherry trees. In another sea- 

 son he received twenty-four dollars from four early 

 peach trees, only six years after they were budded. 

 Another acquaintance sold the crop of a Yellow 

 Spanish cherry tree for seven dollars ; another 

 sold the crop of one large apple tree, amounting 

 to forty bushels, for ten dollars ; and his neighbor 

 obtained thirty dollars for a crop of pears of equal 



