is the use of getting out any little catalogue or 
price-list this season? Fruit business is booming and 
prosperous the country over, everybody is making money, 
and the dcmaiid for most kinds of nursery slock is in 
excess of the supply. There is no temptation to try and 
encourage trade by any interesting stories of successes 
in fruit culture, for people are bound to buy trees and 
plants anyway, now that it is so clearly evident that all 
land-owners who are in the fruit business are receiving 
greater cash incomes than the average of others engaged 
in any other branch of agriculture. The small - fruit 
business has net shown as great profits for ten years past; the grower 
has enjoyed high prices, and a demand far ahead of the supply. 
The modern up-to-date peach, apple and plum orchards are paying 
fine profits, and there is a stronger interest in continued planting than 
ever before. With asparagus at fancy prices, and never half enough to supply the daily demands, it is 
plain that there is yet a good market for the crops of thousands of acres more of this delicious vegetable. 
L.ite winter and early spring forcing of rhubarb, in any old cellar, at no cost except for the roots, is a 
profitable side-dish that is turning liberal sums of money into many a farmer’s pocket. 
But above all the profitableness of comnicreial horticulture, the greater demand for trees, plants and 
vines for the home supply is particularly noticeable. Fruits as a large part of the family food supply 
never held so strong a place as now; fruits for breakfast, fruits for dinner, fruits for supper, for children’s 
school lunches, for social functions, or to supply a delicious and refreshing lunch for friends or family at 
any time of day or night,— all are now a matter of course. 
Fruit is the one source of food supply that may be ever ready at hand without cooking or any other 
preparation, and that furnishes such a delicious, healthy and nourishing food as nothing else can. 
Is it any wonder that we in the nursery trade, who have been so large a factor in fruit - planting, take 
pride in the results of our labors, and want all who arc not yet fully supplied to join the happy throng 
of fruit producers and consumers? And it is with this in mind that this list is issued and sent to old 
friends and customers, and such others as ought to be one with us in the enjoyment of these most health¬ 
ful and delicious of Nature's products. 
Those who have not a liberal fruit garden should start one this spring, sure; while those already 
established may be greatly improved by the addition of some of the more choice varieties mentioned in 
this list. The best is good enough for us all. Here is the opportunity and now the lime to make sure 
we have it. 
