Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-04-11
Profits Of Fruit Cui lure

yea tIUlItS W FRUIT GulLuFe.
Sc Boswell, in the last January num
Der of the Horlicullurist, enumerates 6
number of items exhibiting the profits o
Fruit culture. We should likeio give the
article, item for item, blll our limits vii
not pernit. We therefore condense it il
the following o.
&c. A. Cable, Of Cleveland, has an or,
chard Of an hundred cherry trees now y
years old. 10 the year ls45, his crop sole
for upwards ofoRe thousand dollars. Mr.
c. manages his orchard better than an,
other person in the Union, SO farsas ny
knowledge extends. The remains of q
cherry orchard numbering 70 trees near
PhiIadeiPhia, furnish fruit for sale to up.
wards Of eighty dollars per day during
their season. Twenty apple trees, Early
Red Streak and Early Queen varieties. 10
1916, produced 800 bushels of fruit that
sold for two hundred and twenty-five dol
lars. One grape vine Fox Grapel has
never been pruned, land now covers tho top
Offourteen apple trees, and produces year
y seventy FIVE bushels offruit. ~.
One Washington PLAN tree in Phila.
deIphia produces annually six bushels Of
fruit valued at ten dollars per busheI.
Three. eighths Of an acre in Vineyard
ofIsabella aud Catawbs grapes four years
old, has produced fruit the sale of which
brought three hundred dollars, at eight cts.
per pound. .fA- = 5al
One Catawba grape vine, at WeslChes.
ter, Pa, produces yearly ten bushels of
grapes, valued a. forty dollars. u 4
One Blue Gage plum tree in Philadel.
Phia, produces ten bushels of fruit in q
season. hs attA
One Goosberry plant furnished this past
season thirteen quarts of fruit.
Two rows Of Goosberry plants. one
hundred and fifty feet long, furnished six
bushels Of fruit at one time, that sold for
twenty. -four dollars.
Two Apricot trees have yielded yearly
five bushels each.
Four Tewksbury Winter Blush Apple
trees in 1916 produced one hundred and
forty market baskets Of apples. Without
any extra care, ninety baskets of those
were kept until late in the spring Of 1s47,
when they readily sold for one dollar a
basket.
A fruit grower of Fishkill landing, N.
Y has gathered fifteen barrels Of Ldy
apples from one tree and sold them for
forly'five dollars. r-Ht Eu auF
Mr.. Joseph Robinson, of New Hamp
shire, has an orchard. planted and raised
by'himselE covering but two acres of land,
the produce Of which this year is nine
hundred bushels exclusive OF a second
picking of inferior quality. Mr.. R. has
sold four hundred for cash down. at 81
per bushel, reserving five hundred bush.
els for future sale. The entire income
this year will not be below $1,000, and all
at far less labor than is bestowed upon a
small farm. 'a I'd
Yet with all these facts it is doubtful il
any moro attention will be given to fruit
growing. "Many cultivators neglect set.
ting out fruit trees, from a natural negIi,
gence others dislike to pay twenty. five
or fifty cents for fine tree others again
are afraid that every body will go TO fruit
growing. and bring down the price to al.
most nothing. But we would ask ifthere
Is any more danger of every body com
nencing on a large scale the culture OF
fruit, than there is tina. every body will
commence the raising of onions, or the
making OF razor strops, or the cultivation
ofroses 7" .....