vi Preface. 
desired for its extrinsic or market qualities; and the 
world’s products bring the world’s prices. The 
special-market fruit-grower generally works on a 
small base. The world’s-market fruit-grower works 
on a large base; or he sells to another who, by com- 
bining similar products of many persons, is able to 
command the attention of the market. 
Now, it is the large base upon which American 
fruit-growing is established which enables it to enter 
European markets. In America are thousands of acres 
of one variety, and the conditions under which the 
fruits are grown are so similar as to produce uni- 
formity in the product. We speak one language, and, 
although we are two nations, we live in practically 
the same political environment. We go to Hurope, 
and to our own great markets, with wholesale quan- 
tities. 
In Europe, on the contrary, nearly every fruit- 
growing center is unique. The industry is the out- 
come of years, may be of centuries, of local effort 
and tradition. There is no general uniformity of 
methods and varieties. Community of interests on a 
large base is impossible. There are insurmountable 
difficulties of physiography, of races, languages and 
political systems. In the staple products, the Euro- 
pean grower may not be able to compete with Ameri- 
cans in his own markets, so long as those markets 
remain naturally open. 
The American fruit-grower quickly assimilates new 
methods. He is unfettered by tradition; and how: 
much this means only those can understand who know 
