FRUIT-GROWERS’ REPORT. 
441 
been on the right track, and where effort was usually sure of 
being rewarded. 
There are to-day as great inventions to be made, as great 
fortunes in inventing them as ever—who doubts it, any more 
than the good old saw wherewith slighted swains and others 
console themselves—“as good fish in the sea as ever w T ere 
caught!” So with fruit in its varieties and modes of manage 
ment; as great improvements in a thousand directions as w^ere 
ever made, and for one, the writer would neither limit it, nor 
dare stop working and tinkering lest he might come short! 
Who shall say how edible, as a dessert fruit, the glorious 
annual tomato may yet become? how perfect the system of 
dwarfing fruits may be made ? Who shall set limits to the 
capacity and value of the blessed grape—the infant giant of 
modern Pomology? good enough, as all must admit, in every 
way and shape without crushing out its generous life-blood to 
intoxicate; nor need it then or thus, if vitiated tastes did not 
demand fermentation or drugging. Heaven forgive the parents 
or public who allow on every public corner or occasion, and in 
so many domestic circles, such unspeakably dangerous, cruel? 
foolish abuses of the Father’s good gifts the only excuses 
for which, under the sun, are their existence and the power of 
habit—and so with every other evil. 
We urge, then, the preservation of the hardiest varieties and 
best modes of cultivation to give us fruit; away with so 
much halting and half-heartedness about fruit-growing in the 
North-West! We maintain that wherever the cereals will grow 7 
there the Creator intended man should grow and enjoy fruit,, 
fresh from his own vine and fig-tree. 
We have a warm right hand for every one that earnestly 
embarks in Horticulture, especially against popular prejudices; 
and we would labor with them for its sound, radical establish¬ 
ment in this great Western Yalley — garden of the World. 
Let us get it founded aright — get something tangible and reli¬ 
able to start with, and, if need be, fall back upon. 
