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The son was born September 3, 1841. He says he sought a wife 

 among the fruit growers of New York, and married M. Elizabeth 

 Carpenter of Ulster county. They have four children, three boys 

 and one girl. The children have been trained to enjoy fruits and 

 flowers, and with one accord as it were all seem to be natural fruit 

 growers. We only wish some of our cold-hearted farmers could 

 see what these children are doing for amusement and profit about 

 their garden. The lesson would convince the most indifferent that 

 children can find pleasure in doing these things. Guide them and 

 encourage them and you bestow upon them more substantial wealth 

 than hoarded dollars can give. 



Before settling in Manchester, Mr. Pope's father had a nursery 

 of apple trees in Vassalboro, and when he sold them he reserved 

 some of the trees and brought them to his new home. The oldest 

 trees on the hillside orchard came from this nursery, some 300 trees 

 in all. When he was fourteen years of age the son planted a nursery 

 of his own, and from this source the father and son began to set as 

 soon as the trees were large enough, setting about one hundred 

 trees a year for five or six years. Since then, additions have been 

 made from year to year until the hillside is covered with trees. 

 There are about 1,600 trees, covering not far from thirty acres of 

 land. The orchard contains Baldwins very largely, though there 

 are Gravensteins, Hubbardstons, Tompkins, Talman's Sweets, R. I. 

 Greenings and Roxbury Russets. The Baldwin is the main crop, 

 and under the skillful culture given to it, it has borne boun- 

 tiful crops of choice fruit to reward its skillful owners. Ex- 

 hibitors at our fairs have learned to respect the grower of this 

 fruit, for it has been rare that fruit from this killside has not borne 

 away a large share of premiums. There are two things about this 

 fruit, it shows a skillful grower and a skillful handlier, both of which 

 are important in exhibition fruit. 



Nor have his labors in fruit culture been limited to the orchard. 

 He has a large, well arranged garden of small fruits — long rows, 

 unobstructed by trees that are easily worked with the horse. An 

 abundance of these luscious fruits have thus been grown for a large 

 family, and the writer doubts if there is any family in the State 

 that derives more substantial pleasure from the fruit garden than 

 the Popes. 



In recent years Mr. Pope has taken great interest in the culture 

 of pears, plums and small fruits. His grounds contain twenty-two 

 varieties of pears and twenty-six varieties of plums, Japan plums, 



