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ly as a business. He is sharp, and takes care to grow the kind 

 that pays him the most money, and that is all he cares about. I 

 could cite examples in this vicinity. I know a man who almost 

 worships the Baldwin apple. I don't mean that it is any reproach 

 to a man to care for and cultivate only the fruit that pays him 

 best, but I do say that the fact that Friend Taylor cultivates so 

 many varieties is proof of his interest in pomology in general. He 

 does it because he likes it. He can't help introducing new varie- 

 ties, because his intei'est in the matter prompts him to do it. He 

 is just the kind of man we want. His practice may not prove 

 profitable to himself, but it results in good to the public. 



In relation to the point suggested for my notice, I think I un- 

 derstand the position taken in the paper, and it is well that it has 

 been brought forward, for it is one to which the attention of the 

 Society should be called. Fruit growers know that in fruitful 

 years there is a season in the antumn, say through the month of 

 October, perhaps commencing in the latter part of September and 

 extending to the middle of November or the first of December, 

 when fruit is perishable, and at that time it is a drug in the mar- 

 ket. Look over our catalogue of fruits that come to perfection at 

 about that time. Now these apples must be pressed into market 

 or they are lost ; consequently the most profitable kind to grow 

 for market purposes is either a very early or a very late fruit. I 

 think that is a position that every fruit grower will endorse. 

 Either grow early fruit that will bring good prices before the mar- 

 ket is glutted, or late varieties that will sell well in the winter. 

 Too largo a proportion of our fruit comes to perfection in the 

 months of October and November. Our earliest fruit, well grown 

 and put in the market in good shape, will bring good prices every 

 year. It is true New Jersey can send fruit here earlier than we 

 can grow it, but these perishable varieties of fruit cannot be trans- 

 ported any great distance in good condition, I take the ground 

 we have nothing to fear from the West and South, I think there 

 is more advantage than disadvantage in their competition, for it 

 stimulates us to raise fruit of good size and shape. The fruit 

 raised at the West and South is found, when examined, to be not 

 80 compact in its texture as that grown in New England, and es- 

 pecially in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It is true that 

 much of it is large, fair and handsome, but a given bulk of it does 

 not contain so much richness as a like quantity of our fruit. Take 

 our Baldwin, Northern Spy and Russet, and compare them with 



