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flowers and .dark purple fruit, which grows in rocky places ; and the Hobble 

 bush, (V. Lantanoides), a straggling bush with handsome flowers, found in 

 moist woods. 



Our colored plate is an excellent representation of V. opulus stirilis, and 

 will, we hope, influence many of our readers, in planting their lawns, to 

 choose this as one of the shrubs for filling in appropriate spaces. 



Our readers will notice that this frontispiece is done in a new process, 

 combining the photograph and the chromo, and we hope, in this way, to 

 be able to embellish our journal with some very beautiful pictures during 

 the coming year. 



CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS IN FRUIT GROWING. 



THE question is frequently asked whether fruit growing is a profitable 

 industry. The only correct answer is that it depends in some measure on 

 circumstances, but mainly on the cultivator. Like the questions we often 

 see discussed in the publications of the day, " is life worth living ? " " is marriage 

 a failure ? " it is or is not, just as we make it. 



A cause of much of the want of success m the growing of fruit is to be traced 

 to the fact that it has been regarded as a secondary matter, the thought and care 

 being given to other crops. Hence much of the fruit sent to market has been 

 barely good, much more has been poor, and but very little truly perfect. This 

 method needs to be reversed. Fruit growing should be the main thing, all 

 else secondary and subsidiary. In short, the fruit grower should be in love 

 with his work. As an eminent writer said of the successful rose grower, " he 

 must have the tenderness, the thoughtfulness, the reverence, the watchfulness of 

 love." 



Love like this will lead him to a careful study of everything affecting his 

 favorite pursuit. Soils are not all equally adapted to the growing of fruits ; nor 

 even to all varieties of the same fruit. The quality of the fruit is materially 

 influenced by the character of the soil. Fertilizers are not judiciously used 

 unless adapted to the accomplishment of the end desired. Some fertilizers tend 

 specially to the increase of plant growth, others to affect the size and quality of 

 the fruit. There are also insect foes and insect friends, the former to be destroyed, 

 the latter to be preserved. This necessitates an acquaintance with both. These 

 are but a part of the subjects requiring thoughtful attention, but they may suffice 

 to show the exceeding breadth of the knowledge that the fruit grower must make 

 tributary to his ends. 



In the pruning and training will be found ample scope for the exercise of all 

 the thoughtfulness and watchfulness of which he is possessed, and of a discerning 

 judgment formed thereon. The habit of growth differs much in even different 

 varieties of the same fruit. The amount of fruit that each can bring to perfection 



