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represent a capital of from 55 to 130 thalers, for a table- 

 fruit tree easily gains yearly from 4 to 5 florins, and a 

 nut-tree 10 florins. He should be made aware that 

 many endeavors to raise fruit have failed hitherto 

 only because the right kinds were not chosen, or small 

 trees have been brought from good soil to worse, from 

 warm regions to colder ones, from protected situations 

 to exposed ones, etc. In short, failure has come be- 

 cause essential mistakes were made in the beginning, 

 or rational treatment was wanting, or other great er- 

 rors were committed. When the great advantage 

 which is to be reaped from fruit culture is once seen, 

 and there is sound instruction given about the selec- 

 tion and proper care of trees fitted to the soil and 

 circumstances, fruit trees will be planted everywhere. 1 * 

 When this is the case, the home garden will be taken 

 better care of, dwarf fruit trees will be found harm- 

 less to other garden plants, and birds, the extermina- 

 tors of injurious insects, will come to our gardens. f 

 Soon mountain slopes and waste places will be culti- 

 vated with fruit trees, farm fields will be surrounded 

 with them, and streets, lanes, ridges, dams, the shores 

 of broqjcs and the edges of ponds will be ornamented 

 with them. Respect for the property of others will 

 soon arise when all land proprietors cultivate fruit on 

 their own premises. 



TREE PLANTING. 



Nor must school gardens forget to plant forest trees. 

 Wherever the woods do not stand very near the school, 



* It is well to remember that while apple trees are devoured almost bodily by 

 canker worms in Cambridge, the soil is specially adapted to pear trees, which the 

 canker worms do not attack . TB. 



t Cats must be abolished in city gardens to ensure the visitation of birds. 



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