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country, where every kind, in its favored locality, can 
seemingly be grown without an effort. With the little at¬ 
tention thus far given to fruit culture the most satisfactory 
results have been attained. To give our readers some¬ 
thing of an idea of the industry in its undeveloped state 
we quote from the introduction of this volume: 
“ The climate and soil of our country afford unequaled 
facilities for fruit culture, both in gardens and market 
orchards. A rich treasure lies within our reach in the 
profusion of delicious sorts which successive months of 
the year may be made to supply. Advantage has already 
been taken of these facilities, extensive orchards have 
been planted in the different States, and vast crops are 
annually produced. Within a few years the foreign mar¬ 
kets have taken from this country, in one season, between 
one and two million barrels of apples and three thousand 
tons of evaporated fruit. The horticultural productions 
of the Mississippi Valley, consisting mainly of fruit, have 
been estimated at an annual value of one hundred million 
dollars, while more limited regions give corresponding re¬ 
turns. 
“A single county in Western New York (Orleans), in 
one year, furnished for market two hundred and sixty- 
nine thousand dollars’ worth of fruit, besides the amount 
consumed at home, and other counties have occasionally 
exceeded this sum. Two hundred thousand bushels of 
peaches were canned in San Francisco in 1881, and the 
dried fruits of that State sold for over two million dollars, 
of which the raisin crop amounted to half a million.” 
The successful horticulturist is amazed at the fact of 
millions of acres of land in this country, now compara¬ 
tively useless because of its rocky or hilly surface, that 
might be profitably employed in the cultivation of fruits 
of various kinds, which would yield a greater revenue 
than much of our most arable land. Land has a value 
in addition to the marketable crops it yields, and of this 
value the author speaks as follows : 
“ The family which is at all times supplied with de¬ 
licious and refreshing fruit from its own gardens, has 
within its reach not only a very important means of 
economy, but of real domestic comfort. 
“ Every addition to the attractions of home has a salu¬ 
tary bearing on a rising family of children. The differ¬ 
ence between a dwelling with well-planted grounds, well 
furnished with every rural enjoyment, and another where 
scarcely a single fruit-tree softens the bleakness and deso¬ 
lation, may in many instances, to a young man just ap¬ 
proaching active life, prove the turning influence between 
a life of virtue and refinement on the one hand, and one 
of dissipation and ruin from the effects of a repulsive 
home on the other. Nor can any man, even in the noon 
or approaching evening of life, fail to enjoy a higher hap¬ 
piness when among the blossoming and loaded trees 
which his own hands have planted and pruned, than in 
the noise of the crowd and tumult of the busy world.” 
The American Fruit Culturist contains all the infor¬ 
mation as to selection, cultivation, production of new 
varieties, and, in short, on every point relating to the cul¬ 
ture and care of fruits. It is a book that no farmer or 
gardener can afford to be without. 
HAY FEVER. 
O NCE established, the return of Hay Fever is counted on at a fixed 
hour of the fated day with the same certainty as the rising of the 
sun. And until it has run its course the words “ endurance ” and 
“patience” have to the sufferers an emphasis of meaning known to 
no others. Some persons are affected as early as in June, others as 
late as September. It is, like nasal catarrh, a disturbance of the 
mucous membrane, and its most appropriate title, perhaps, is “ annual 
catarrh.” It has been by some called “ rose cold,” “ hay asthma,” &c. 
Hundreds of our patients who have used “ Compound Oxygen ” report 
a removal of unhealthy conditions predisposing to catarrh and asthma 
and hay fever , and several who were at one time acute sufferers from 
hay fever report that they believe themselves to be entirely cured. 
The following letters are of especial interest to hay-fever sufferers now 
looking forward with dread to the coming of their annual visitor. 
They have here an indication of a pleasant way to avoid the necessity 
of entertaining so unwelcome a guest. 
A gentleman in Greenfield, Mass., wrote to us in regard to his wife. 
In stating her case he gave the following particulars : 
“One year ago last spring she had rose or hay fever, which termi¬ 
nated in asthma , and was sick in bed most of the winter, with sore¬ 
ness of the chest, cough, and hard breathing. Coughs hard now and 
raises considerable, and is very thin and feeble. No strength and 
very little appetite." 
The last report was at the end of six months. The following letter 
gives the patient’s condition at the time it was written. Tracing the 
case along through the reports given, the change in six months was in¬ 
deed “ wonderful.” 
“ To Drs. Starkey & Palen : 
“ Dear Sirs — My wife is, she says, well. A wonderful change in 
six months, from the bed to good health or nearly so, and all from 
■Compound Oxygen. 
“ Has used nothing else. Appetite good, strength and flesh 
returning; everything looks like sound health again. 
“ We are grateful. Words cannot express the gratitude we owe you 
for this great cure." 
A physician at Newsom's Depot, Virginia, wrote in October, 1884 : 
“ Having recommended your Compound Oxygen Treatment to my 
friend E. M. D., of this place, and also his lady, who have been suffer¬ 
ing for several years - himself fifteen years from the most trying and 
severe attacks every fall from ‘ hay fever,’ his wife from chronic 
catarrh and bronchitis —both have experienced the greatest benefits, 
and especially Mr. D., who has entirely escaped his usual fall attacks, 
although he did not get your Treatment before it set in quite severely ; 
yet in less than two weeks he was e 7 itirely relieved; to-day he tells me 
he is all right and well of it. 
“ So, having so greatly benefited them, I have determined to try it on 
two other of my patients at once. I write to-day to get you to send 
me, per express, a complete outfit marked C. O. D. Send ine also some 
of your treatises, pamphlets, and oblige. Should I again get the bene¬ 
fit I hope for and expect, you will hear from me again, and I shall 
think myself fortunate in finding so great a remedy aniong diseases 
that have always baffled our most skillful physicians." 
In conformation of the Doctor’s statement about hay fever, we have 
a letter from Mr. D., the gentleman referred to, dated October 14, 
1884, in which he says : 
“ I am much benefited. Have e 7 itirely escaped 7 )iy itsual attack of 
hay fever. Before I received the Co 77 ipou 7 id Oxyge 7 i it had set in 
quite severely, yet i 7 i less tha 7 i two weeks A was entirely relieved, and 
to-day a 77 i all right." 
A letter of later date says: 
“ If you remember, I ordered of you a supply of your Compound 
Oxygen last August to use for hay fever and asthma myself, and for 
my wife, whose right lung was very much affected ; in fact, she was 
given up at one time as having consumption. I think it did t/ie tnore 
good tha 7 i anythitig I ever used for hay fever, and now the doctor says 
my wife’s lungs are all right ; still, she takes it occasionally.” 
A patient in Oquawka, Illinois, who had suffered very much from 
hay fever, each tall, for five or six years, beginning the last week in 
July and lasting through August and September, last year used Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, and the good results attained led to other orders for 
Home Treatments from some of his.acquaintances, though no direct 
report has been received from the patient himself. 
The experience we have had satisfies us that almost every case of it 
may be cured. But it is of little use to expect that an attack can be 
stopped if the treatment be delayed until it is fully established. 
To be surely successful, treatment should be commenced long enough 
before the expected invasion of the disease to have taken one full sup¬ 
ply of Compound Oxygen—or two months. 
Full directions will be given as to method of use. To anyone wish¬ 
ing to learn, What Co//ipou 7 id Oxyge 7 i Is ; Its Mode of Action and 
Results, a brochure of one hundred and eighty-eight pages, will be sent 
free, postpaid, on application. Address, Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 
and mi Girard Street, Philadelphia. 
After July 1 the address will be No. 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 
