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J~T"^HOUSANDS of dollars are ammally paid out for fruit trees by 

 I farmers in the eastern counties of our Province, not one in every 

 -^ hundred of which is properly planted anl cared for afterwards. 

 This is mainly due to the want of information ou the subject. 



Believing that a great sourco of wealth, in the production of fruit 

 orchards and gardens, lies within the reach of our farmers, and that 

 ignorance of the culture of large and small fruits must be the great 

 obstacle in the way of progress of this industry, I have been led to offer 

 this little work to the farmers. 



Many of the works in circulation on this subject have been written in 

 the interests of some particular nursery, and contain information that is 

 totally unreliable, or applicable only to certain districts. I ha^^e written 

 in the interests of the fruit grower only, and mainly with the hope that 

 the young men of our province, who have been led to look upon fanning as 

 a sort of unprofitable drudgery, may be led to engage in an industry, the 

 intelligent pursuit of which cannot but prove profitable to themselves, auil 

 a source of wealth to the country at large. In many parts of the province 

 advantage has already been taken of the unequalled facilities for fruit 

 culture. Large orchards have been planted, and vast crops annually pro- 

 duced. Within a few years the foreign markets have taken from this 

 country, in a single season, a quarter of a million dollars worth of fruit, 

 and the amount is yearly increasing, without danger of over production. 

 The lessons which these facts teach, is to plant without hesitation in all 

 favorable localities, bearing in mind that the planting should not exceed 

 the limit of the very best care and cultivation that cm be given. 



I shall always be glad to give any information in my power, or to mail 

 scions to any one desiring them, for the inere cost of postage. Young 

 men desiring to obtain a practical knowledge of fruit culture are invited to 

 correspond. 



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