December 10, 1891. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
499 
his receipts 4432 dollars, or considerably more than 1000 dollars profit. 
The fourth year, or 1891, the expenses were 4300 dollars, and the receipts 
8846 dollars, with a profit of 4346 dollars. The receipts and expendi¬ 
tures are itemised, and the report concludes with advice to beginners to 
go slow, doing only as much as can be done well, since nothing but the 
best production will pay, and it may safely be estimated that, besides 
the land, every acre of small fruit properly prepared, planted, and 
brought to a bearing age will cost from 125 dollars to 150 dollars, or 
their equivalent in honest work at 125 dollars a day. Mr. Thayer's 
It is one of his informal low standard trees, of which he has so 
many, and which produce an abundance of large and luscious Peaches 
and Nectarines every year. The crops never fail under the light roof 
of this large house with boarded sides, and just one hot-water pipe to 
temper the cold when needed. 
He ha3 other houses and other trees of varied shapes and sizes, the 
handsome pyramids from 4 to 10 or 12 feet high being pictures of beauty, 
both when laden with blossom in the spring and ripening their rich, 
crimson, and many-tinted fruits in the summer. 
Fig-. 91— Mr. T. FRANCIS RIVERS AT HOME. 
concluding counsel is : “ Begin modestly, subscribe liberally to good 
papers, increase your plantation as experience is gained,” and he pro¬ 
mises to answer questions on particular points by mail or otherwise, 
or send short, plain instructions for growing small fruits, free, to any 
•one who will send his name —(American Garden.') 
MR. RIVERS AT HOME. 
Quite at home,” it will be admitted Mr, T. F. Rivers is, as in a 
characteristic mood he appears as if studying one of the trees in his 
•orchard house, and possibly counting its fruits. 
Mr. Rivers is emphatically a Peach and Nectarine man, the raiser of 
more new varieties than any other person, and is a consummate 
cultivator. 
The tree he is examining is not one of those which supply 40s. a 
dozen fruits early in the season, but is one of his old favourites, which 
represents Peach-growing’ made easy; no training, no pinching, the 
simplest possible pruning, and always plenty of fruit in its season. 
When we came across the photograph we at once thought it appropriate 
for reproduction, and the chief figure in it will, perhaps, be a little 
surprised when he opens his Journal to-day. His mood will then 
change to either a frown or a smile, and a smile we shall hope it 
will be. 
