INTRODUCTION. 



DfPOBTANCE OP ORCHARD PRODnOTS — GOTBRNMENT STATISTICS — 

 GREAT VALITE OF ORCHARD AND GARDEN PRODUCTS — DELIGHTS 

 OP PKCIT CULTURE — TEMPERATE REGIONS THE PROPER FIELD POR 

 PRUIT CULTURE, AS POR MENTAL DEVELOPMENT — PLANTS OP CUL- 

 TURE, PLANTS OF NATURE — NOMADIC CONDITION UNFAVORABLE 

 POR TERRA-CULTURE — NECESSITIES OP AN INCREASING POPULA- 

 TION A SPUR — HIGH CIVILIZATION DEMANDS HIGH CULTURE — 

 HORTICULTURE A PINE ART, THE POETBT OP THE FARMER'S LIFE 

 — MORAL INFLUENCES OF PKUIT-CULTURE — SINGULAR LEGISLATION 

 RESPECTING PROPERTT IN PRUIT — INPLUBNCE UPON HEALTH — 

 APPLES IN BREAD-MAKING; AS POOD POH STOCK — SOURqES AND 

 ROUTES OP INTRODUCTION — AGENOT OF NURSERYMEN — INDIAN 

 ORCHARDS — FRENCH SETTLERS — JOHNNY APPLE-SEED — VARIETIES 

 OP PBUITS, LIKE MAN, FOLLOW PARALLELS OP LATITUDE — LOCAL 

 VARIETIES OF MERIT TO BE CHERISHED — OHIO PURCHASE — SILAS 

 WHARTON — THE PUTNAM LIST. 



Fbw persons have any idea of the great value and im- 

 portance of the products of our orchards and fruit-gardens. 

 These are generally considered the small things of agri- 

 culture, and are overlooked by all but the statist, whose 

 business it is to deal with these minutisB, to hunt them up, 

 to collocate them, and when he combines these various de- 

 tails and produces the sum total, we are all astonished at 



the result. 

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