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Pear trees for twenty-five years, regarcling it more profitable than any other 
^•uit or farm croii. He had known of Pears selling at $05 per barrel. Mr. 
1 bomas Smith said that his brother sold two barrels of Ueurrc Clairgeau for 
last year. 
In all these cases the best cultivation was given to the dwarfs, in connection 
AMth the yearly application of good stable manure. It may be laid down as 
an unalterable rule that Dwarf Pears cannot live, much less flourish, unless a 
complete system of broadcast cultivation is given. Digging small circles 
around the foot of each tree is wholly insufflcient. The roots of thrifty trees 
soon spread over the whole surface, and the whole surface must, therefore be 
kept clean and mellow. 
PEACHES. 
M hat Ls more beautiful than the ripening Peach, with its crimson cheek and 
velvet skin IVhat more luscious than its juicy, almost vinous pulp ? Is it 
lu-ofitable to raise? Yes, when properly managed, both by thorough cultiva- 
tion of the soil and severe priming every spring. 
3Ir. Reynolds of Peach Orchard, on Seneca Lake, in the fall of 18G8 real- 
ized $:i,000 from ten acres of Peaches. ’ 
Mr. Arnold, of Starkey, N. Y., bought in the spring of ’08, a fruit farm of 50 
acres, about one-half in Peaches, and the balance in aiiplos, cherries, grapes 
and berries: Price paid for the farm, §11,000. In the fall of the same year he 
sold I caches to the amount of §5,000; the buyer doing his own packin"- and 
marketing. He also realized over .§1.000 from the other fruits; thus realizing 
more than half the purchase money of tlie farm the first si.x months. The 
prospect tor the present season is eiiually as good. 
S. B. Marshall, of Cleveland, Ohio, pointed oitt to us when riding with him, 
a 1 each orchard of about ten acres, purchased for .§7,000, which yielded its' 
owner $0,000 the first season after the purchase. 
PLUMS. 
Since we have found how easily the fruit of the Plum tree is iirotccted from 
the attack of the curculio, planting Plum orchards is becoming a large and ex- 
ceedingly jirofitable branch of fruit culture. The cost of jirotecting a large 
orchard from the attacks of this enemy, will not exceed ten cents per tree for 
the entire season. 
The Plum, as all are aware, is wonderfully iiroductive, producing heavy 
crops for a long series of years, with scarcely an exception. Xo fruit with 
which we are actpiainted, seems more promising than the Plum. The superior 
excellence of the fruit causes it to be in great demand, and it brings readily in 
market from $4 to $0 per bushel. Single trees often bring over ten dollars 
worth of fruit. An acre of Plums would produce without doubt 150 to 200 
bushels on the average. most confidently recommend it for extensive 
planting. 
CHERRIES. 
The large free growing kinds, with their large, glo.ssy leaves and symmetrical 
heads, make fine trees for iilanting on the road-side, or as boundaries or screens 
for the orchard. By a proper selection of varieties they may be profitably 
grown for market. They are hardy, rajiid growers, come early into bearing 
and produce regular and abundant croiis. Many trees in the vicinity of 
