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"The growing of small fruits has been to me a source of 

 income and has paid my debts, and also built for us a nice 

 house ;" so writes this estimable gentleman, who lives at North 

 EUGENE WILLETT Collins, N. Y., not far from Buffalo. The 

 first work he ever remembers to have done was picking straw- 

 berries for an uncle at a cent a quart, and he has been interested 

 in berry growing ever since. He is in the lorty-first year of his 

 age. He is a successful and interesting man. Page 23. 



One of the substantial fruit and fruit- 

 plant growers of Michigan, a native, 

 though, of the Berkshire Hills of New 

 England, where he was born in 1849. His 

 O. A. E. BALDWIN father dying, he re- 

 turned to the old place, and in 1865 remov- 

 ed to Michigan, where he has engaged in 

 berry growing largely, and lately in sup- 

 plying plants, in which he hasa very large 

 trade. His home is Bridgmau, Mich. 



O. A. E. BALDWIN 



This gentleman's name has become widely and pleasantly 

 familiar from his monthly berry bulletins, which appear in the 

 agricultural press of the country. He went to Wisconsin 

 in 1856 ; is now president of the State Hort. Society ; and 

 M. A. THAYER " Thayer Fruit Farms " are said to be producers 

 of more berries and berry plants than any other concern or indi- 

 vidual in the northwest. Over 100 acres are devoted to berries 

 alone. Located at Sparta, a city which Mr. Thayer once presided 

 over as mayor. Page 83. 



It would not do to omit this gentle- 

 man from any galaxy of portraits of small 

 fruit men, for none are more conspicuous 

 than he. It was in 1878 that he took the 

 first steps in the establishment of the cele- 

 J. T. LOVETT brated Monmouth Nur- 

 series, at Little Silver, N. J., and now the 

 business done there is simply immense. 

 He makes small fruits a specialty, and his 

 " Guide " is one of the most attractive pub- 

 lications of the kind sent out to the public. 



J. T. LOVETT 



