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years of hard labor and expensive advertising. No, we 

 would advise you to set your grounds out mainly to five 

 or six varieties of strawberries — sinndaid sorts — that are 

 raised in all parts of the country, and an equal proportion 

 of other reliable fruits. Soon your shipments will com- 

 mence, your business will lirsi attract attention near home. 

 Your neighbors will see the success you are having and 

 thoy will bay plants of yoxi. Gradually your reputation 

 will widen and extend, until by patience and perse \'erance, 

 and a determination to establish a character for honesty 

 and uprightness, by selling no plant for another sort and 

 keeping your plantations pure and unmixed, you will soon 

 work into the plant trade, and then it will be time for you 

 to keep an assortment that will supply all demands." 



Such was our advice to him, and siich it is to all who 

 have an idea that they will go right into a flourishing busi- 

 ness in selling plants. We admit that part of our success 

 for the past few years has been in selling plants, as well as 

 fruit; and we s<iy to all, now, first be sure and set PURE 

 AND UNMIXED PLANTS, and when you trim your grapes, 

 currants and gooseberries, save the cuttings and &et them 

 out, and as your neighbors and others see your fruits they 

 will want some of them, and learning that you have plants 

 for sale, will buy of you, and gradually, as you learn the 

 secret of selling, advertising judiciously, &c., &c., your 

 business will increase. Another point, when you find a 

 fruit is of no value — no matter what it cost you — discard 

 it and don't attempt to sell it, for such a course will surely 

 work against you in the end. 



The second point is — Don't plant too much at first, 

 but what ground you do plant, make it cuunt. If your 

 means are small and you have but littl 3 land, sow among 

 blackberries, raspberries, &c., plant out early potatoes, 

 tomatoes, cabbages, &c. 



Third — Don't experiment too largely with new 

 high-priced sorts ; but leave that for those who have the 

 money to lose. 



Fourth— Plant pure unmixed sorts. No person, 

 who has not had the experience, can imagine the loss that 

 will accrue from planting mixed varieties; hence, it is of 

 great importance if such have to buy their plants, to get 

 them of parties who not only have a reputation at stake, 

 but who have had such experience with small fruit that 



