A Common Mistake

jiiïtuj immer?, ana many persons engaged ín other pursuita, havo ruíhed into some biiRinoss oonnected with hugbandry, solely because a single peraon with whoin they are acquainted has sunceeded in it They never stop to consider that the person who was so succi=ssful wíis wonderfully adapted for the business by tasto and cducation ; that hia looation was most favorable and the soil, olimate, and tlie particular time in which tho business was undertaken was all most advantagoous. Many a man, having read about tho suocess of Knox in raising strawberries, or of Quinn in raising pears, has"sold all and departed for a far oountry," and set up for hortioulturist. Possibly he succeeded, but tho chances are that iio failed. Most likely he was the dupe of some land shark who had a few acres in a fruit country, which was not fruit land. I Thrn he ordered his trees and plants with little fcnowledgo of them aside from what nuiserymen's catalogues contain. Fifty varieties of pears, apples and vinea are planted where three or four of each were all thíat could be cultivated with any show of profit. About the time this discovery is mude, our planter has made the additional discovery that he " waa never out out " for a horticulturist, and that all the painstaking in the world would nover mako him up into one. He has learned considerable from experionce, has paid dearly for hisinstruction, but is now too oíd and too noor to nrofit hv mhat KQ lias learned.