PREFACE TO THE SECOND 
EDITION. 
It is nearly a year since I left this work with 
the printer. The first copy of the book which I 
saw was procured in a foreign land; and now that a 
second edition is called for, I find myself again in 
fields and orchards of another country. These per- 
sonal remarks are not of themselves worth making 
here; but they shall be my excuse for writing a few 
contrasts of American and European fruit-growing. 
Classified in respect to the objects in view, there 
are two kinds of fruit-growing,—that which desires 
the product primarily for home use, and that which 
desires it primarily for market. Of market or com- 
mercial fruit-growing, there are again two types,— 
that which aims at a special or personal market, and 
that which aims at the general or open market. The 
ideals in these two types of fruit-growing are very 
unlike, and the methods and the varieties which suc- 
ceed for the one may not succeed for the other. The 
man who grows fruits for the special market, has 
a definite problem. The product is desired for its 
intrinsic qualities; and special products demand special 
prices. The man who grows fruit for the world’s 
market, has no personal customer. The product is 
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