The Profits Of Fruit Growing

In view of tbo immense proflis of fruit-growing, partioulnrlv of small fruit tor ihos living ncir oitios and ]arg towne, it is astuniekiug that tboir j valiou is not rr.ore generalij engaged in. Wü can only icoouut for it on the ground of tUo tuigratory churacter of cur peciplü, and thtir uuwrBingneM ter inonr the exper.su of planting fiuit freos uiid shrubbory without bekig sure that thy are to reap the beneiïts. But na i vrty porson appreoiates more or K-sa tho value of fluit, it ouy ulways bo conBidertd a payiug ■visit te tngage in the businefs, as orchards nnd email fruita euhance tbií valuó of tho farm far more than tho labor and espi-Dse that they incur. Fruit is the best inve&trnent that ono can engüge in n tbis State. With tbo fjcilitiea we havo for sbipment, ar.a' tl) o licreasing demanda for ueo and consuiaption, ihere is no Hanger of glutting tho niurket; and il by any mesns the market uoaid bo glutted, it would not lie tho wor.--t cali-mity that could befall ihe c immunity. It would be a happy day when ihore tshould be growing upo;i all our present unsightly highways and hedgea iubtuad of serubby hazcl bushes aud wv!d tb-oni, apple, pea&h, pear anri qnrnoo treo, loaded witk delicious fruit. The author of "Ten Acres Enougb," npeakiag of the extra ordinary gains that can be annunlly realized from fruit growing, without apparc nt care o-r kul, ni'ances tho following: "Sonic j'tíare ago there was an orohard of scventy Muvduke cberry trees, a few miles btílow Philadelphia, tho daily sales from vrhicli, during the seaaon, anifiunlcd to $80. I have tbia week Beyn an Amber chorry trae, growing in New Jersey, frota which $00 to 80 worth is aunually sdld, and the owner declares that il' all the fruit were githered, and at, the right time, the product would bu SlOü. From twenty apple trees of' the Early Redutrenk and the Karfy Quoen varieties, growing near Philliddphia 300 bushels of fruit have been riitiiered, which sold for 8225 A s'iigla Washington plum tree, in a city garden, bas been known to yield bis busbels of fruit, worth $10 por bushel. A vineyard sorr,e sisteeu miles from phila'ielplji'i, ocjupying threeeighths of an iiores, has produeed 830O, vvhen the grapjM sold for ouly eiht cents a pound, or at the rato o' SS00 per ucie. A singlo Gata vv ba vine, in the same neigbborhood, hapi produced ten bushels, worth S 10, at market prices I have sean the Calauba claubcring up the ido of a buril in Delaware, aud when c-nly four )rears uld yieldod huudredb of pounds of grapes." êlu fjltdugan jvgii&