all their ground to one variety, and if this fails, their ->ain dependence is gone; while 

 if they had others to fall back on, they would have cox ", out right. 



Don't try experiments too largely, especially if your means are small, and instead 

 of building air castles, go right to work with a mil and build up a permanent business. 

 Don't let a little drawback discourage you,— such as low prices some seasons, or a late 

 spring frost or hard winter. Remember, these things wilt drive many out of the busi- 

 ness, and that those who keep right along, 3'ear after year, will have the benefit of the 

 seasons of high prices. 



We know that there are years when the winter preceding arid the season following, 

 are universally favorable to the full fruiting of all kinds of fruits, and that in such 

 seasons the amount marketed is so large as to cause prices to drop to a low figure; but 

 let it be remembered that such seasons are exceptions and not the rule, and that most 

 seasons one locality is favored and another not, and other times vice versa. In our 

 long experience in growing fruits, we have found that our crops of Small Fruits 

 net us just about the same every year ; for when the crop is large prices are Inl- 

 and when small higher. "We have, however, some years had large, full crops, wnen 

 the crop in other localities would be light, and in such seasons our profits would be 

 enormous. The summer of 1865, we believe, we sold over four hundred bushels of 

 strawberries, that averaged, in the Chicago market, $10 per bushel. This was owing 

 to the crops being cut short in other localities. 



We propose, in order to give a practical illustration how to make high-priced land 

 pay near a city or village, to show in a few lines here, 



WHAT WE WOULD DO WITH TEN ACRES. 



Our first effort would be to have it thoroughly enriched, plowed well and deep, fol- 

 lowing with a subsoil plow and loosening up the ground to a depth of twenty inches 

 We should then set the whole to apples, pears and plums, except about two acres for 

 grapes, that should not be shaded. [For directions how to lay out and plant, see plan 

 on another page.] The pears and plums set eighteen feet apart each way, and apples 

 thirty feet, with peach trees half way between the apple trees each way, these being 

 out of the way by the time the apples get into full bearing. Two acres we should set 

 to grapes of different sorts, twelve feet each way. In the rows of grapes plant out 

 tomatoes or early potatoes ; between the grape rows garden truck of different sorts can 

 be planted for two years, or strawberries, — the latter in rows two feet apart, and the 

 runners kept off. Four acres set to raspberries, three feet in the row and rows six feet 

 apart ; two acres to blackberries and two acres to currants and gooseberries, all three 

 feet apart in the row and rows six feet apart. Thus planted, it brings the trees directly 

 in the rows of blackberries, raspberries, &e Between these raspberries, &c.^ in the 

 rows, some kind of garden truck can be planted one year, while .half way between one 

 strawberry row can beset out, allowing it to. run and form a matted row, giving them 

 the attention described for such rows in this pamphlet, each year after fruiting. These 

 directions are intended for localities where more land can be had at reasonable rates, 

 so that when the trees get so large as to shade the ground, or the raspberries, &c, full 

 grown so as to damage the strawberries, new plantations can be formed on adjoining 

 land. If the land is very high priced, and near some large market where truck and 

 Small Fruits pay well, we should not set but an acre or so of fruit trees, devoting the 

 balance to Small Fruit and truck, closely planted, closely pruned, and well cared for. 

 PROFITS OF SMALL- FRUITS. 



When properly attended to ; and care taken to raise first-class fruit and send it into 

 market in fine order, (which is required of any horticultural or agricultural products, 

 to make them profitable,) there is no branch of business that pays better than the' 

 growing of Small Fruits for market, and as to overstocking the market with such, it 

 cannot be done. More profits can be realized from ten acres of Small Fruits, than 

 from any one hundred acre farm in the country, and that too, with loss hard labor. 



We are aware, however, that there have been seasons when ordinary fruit has sold 

 low in certain markets. Yet in these very markets and seasons, first-class fruit has 

 ilways sold at high and most profitable rates, — thus showing the' great importance of 

 thorough culture. By "thorough culture," we mean deep, subsoil plowing, liberal 

 manuring, clean and oft-rep- %ted cultivation, and plenty of mulching, and last, but not 

 least, with the strawberry, s owing them in hills— that is, keeping off all runners. 

 Add to this the great import ice of growing the best sorts, even if the first cost is con- 

 Biderable higher, and the gro er may rely on a ready market, at the highest rates, foi 

 all he can raise. 



