DUNDEE NURSERY. 
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2.—IT PAYS FROM THE BETTER LIVING AND INCREASED COMFORTS 
THAT SPRING FROM PLANTED GROUND. 
The free use not only of fruits, but also of garden vegetables, should be 
enjoyed by every family in the land daily the year round. The children 
especially should be treated to all the luscious fruits, fresh and preserved, that 
they may desire to eat—none should be deprived of the light and excellent 
food to be found in the choice fruits and vegetables so easily grown. 
Many troublesome diseases are unknown to the free users of a largely 
vegetable diet. A convincing argument for the value of fruit is this. Settlers 
in a new country improve in health as their orchards begin to yield freely. 
Sailors in the frigid zone succumb to severe, sometimes fatal diseases, very 
soon after their supplies of fruits and vegetables give out. 
Statisticans prove beyond any doubt that people on an average live longer 
now than in past centuries. This fact should in a large part be ascribed to the 
rapidly increasing use of fruits and vegetables in recent years in all civilized 
lands. 
The presence of trees about a place contributes greatly to the comfort of 
man and beast. A dense belt of trees, especially evergreens, to the windward 
of a home will save the consumption of many an additional ton of coal in keep¬ 
ing the residence at an agreeable temperature. A similar gain comes in the 
saving of feed and the increased thrift of live stock in stables that are welt 
sheltered from wintery storms. The summer life of man and beast is made 
more pleasant for the presence of an abundance of shade trees. Increase the 
trees of the land, and we not only add to the attractiveness of our country, but 
that is provided which modifies the conditions of freshets, of drouth, and of 
sweeping gales and cold. 
8—IT PAYS IN THE PROFITS THAT MAY BE DERIVED FROM THE SALE 
OF SURPLUS PRODUCTS. 
Our population living in towns and villages become ready buyers from 
those who have a surplus. On this account the judicious culture of fruits and 
vegetables is among the most profitable branches of land culture. Tens of 
thousands of gardeners and fruit growers all over our land derive larger in 
comes from their small plats of perhaps less than ten acres each, devoted to 
these crops than does the average farmer from his many acres given to farm 
crops. 
A neighbor of the writer, from a Bartlett pear orchard of less than two 
acres, clears upward of $1,000 year after year on his crop. The sales from an 
acre of strawberries in the vicinity of thriving towns and villages is seldom 
less than $300, and often reaches $400 to $800 a year. 
JLvergreens 
These are a class of indispensable trees and shrubs for parks, private an«l 
public grounds and farm wind breaks, and possessing varied characteristics of 
habit, growth, form and coloring of foliage, and adapted to a variety of soils. 
Several of this class are exceedingly useful for reclaiming waste lands, 
and many more are of the highest value for the formation of belts for land 
scape effects, and also for shelter, to allow the use of more tender kind of trees 
and plants in localities which otherwise would be too much exposed to climate, 
sun, and wind. 
