The Commercial Outlook. OT 
larging his orchards or smail-fruit plantations, and 
in time there is a wide-spread revolt from general 
farm practices to fruit-growing. The growing of 
specialties, or perishable products, or those which are 
essentially luxuries, demands the finer skill, the more 
enlightened ideals, and the less fluctuating employ- 
ments of an old or at least of a well-settled coun- 
try; and it is in such areas, too, that the best 
special markets are to be found. It has been the gen- 
eral experience that when any area has fully committed 
itself to the raising of any particular fruit, the busi- 
ness is soon carried too far, and after a time a 
revulsion and contraction have come. The lesson 
is that mixed industries are best for any commu- 
nity, and that it is practically impossible to reduce 
the agriculture of any large region to a dead level 
of uniformity. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT-GROWING. 
Two sets of factors chiefly control or determine 
the outlook of the fruit-grower: the personality of 
the grower, and the prospective conditions of the mar- 
ket. Few people appreciate how personal a thing 
success is: yet everyone knows that any two persons 
placed in the same physical and environmental con- 
ditions, and given an equal chance, will arrive at 
very various results in business. The real directive 
forces are matters of character and personality, of 
which the most important requisites seem to be love 
of the occupation, indomitable energy, cool judge- 
