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at more tban double that price, and that too, to buy- 

 ers who took them at their vineyards. The law, appli- 

 cable to a certain extent, which governs the demand for 

 grapes and otlier fruits, seems to be this, that the demand 

 increases as the supply increases. Even now, very few of 

 the smaller cities and villages know any thing of the lux- 

 uries of the small fruits. But they are rapidly learning, 

 and the day is not far distant when every village in the 

 Union will receive, through the express or otherwise, its 

 daily supply of luscious fruits, during their respective 

 seasons, from regions where they can be successfully and 

 profitably grown. The rapid strides which the business of 

 grape-growing has made within the last few years, is well 

 illustrated in the kind and quality of stock which nursery- 

 men are offering to the public. As I write, the advertise- 

 ment of a single nurseryman lies before me, in which 

 more than a half million of vines are offered for sale ; 

 fifteen years ago it is probable that not a quarter of that 

 amount could have been purchased in the whole Union. 

 The investigations which I was at that time able to 

 make, did not assure me of the safety of planting small 

 fruits as a principal feature in my farming. With apples, 

 the result was different. I found that there was a good 

 market for them in the vicinity, and that in the nearest 

 city, about twenty miles away, the demand was far in ex- 

 cess of the supply. I also observed that in the few small 

 orchards which had been planted in the vicinity, the trees 



