Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-02-15
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OEcnUEus, hppioS, ana tic Ha'het'
"David l attn going to quit the nursery btu
sness. La twenty-one years fruit will be a
drug, in New York city. Why everybody is
setting OF { orchards. Just'!ooS around this
neighborhood! There is deacon Jones has
just set out 500 trees; Tom Smith 400, AMI
his brother Jim will have 1000 next spr ng,
and so on, at that rate all over the country
grated fruit, too none o! il for cider. Nov
what do yoa suppose is to become ofal these
apples! l tell you what it is. David, we
must wind up the nursery business or we
shall break fat. Everybody is go Y crazy
about fruit. E'erybody will grow il but no.
body buy il, a few years hence.
This representation was made more than
twenty years ago, by sensible man engaged
in propagating choice fruits for sale, in Cen
trail New Ycrk. and no doubt the speaker
honestly believed the days of the nurseryman
were well nigh numbered. Brother David,
however, was of different opinion. llo did
not believe it was so easy to Oyer,luGk the
market with such fruit AS no other than Amc-
rcan soil and climate can produce. lie did
not believe ere twenty years time would
clapse everybody would have an orchard tho
"a
the business so improbable, the owner could
have no desire 10 pIaut moro, Or better or
newer varieties Of trees; consequently he ur-
ged that the business should be pcrscvcrng-
ly continued until the dlwning Of the cyi.
day was more visible in the horizon.
What has been the result! A sale Of 40, :
coo apple trees and 1000 Of other fruits, du.
ring the planting season OF the last year
and the prospect for the next equally good.
The very mun who had planted 200, have in-
creased 1000, aud some Of them have dJuj -
led that tenfoId; aud yet the market is better
no" than it ever was before, for all the
choice varieties OF the proluct Of orchard
vineyard, or garden The market il not yet
g'utted,nor can it be while millions Of mouths
continually water tor the luscious fruits
which contrast 80 adyantsscousIy with the
sour crabs, five 10 pint,' which filled the
market twenty years ago. Tho market can
not be 'glulted with such fruit as the NcS-
ton plppns, R)Xbury russct5, Rhslc l+land
greenngs, Dndwns GeiIrnour, Swaar, Dom.
inc, and Il great variety Of other excellent
winter Keeping apples; while the luxury To-
wing mouths Of old England are within two
weeks I've have done counting distance by
mlles) oi the fruit bearing hills Of New Eng
land. My, not only New England aud New
York, but the ever benring trees of the rich
plains ot that once far away western wild,
known in our boyhood as New Connecticut.
But still the market Is not g!utted, nor will lit
be though all OAio, NJ chigun Indiana, Hi
neis, aud Wisconsin will pour in their gold
en- treasures of golden pppjns from their nn-
bounded plains OF the richest fruit hearing
land the world ever saw, while that same
world ful! Of p'opc possess the taste they
now do for choice, delicious fruits.
Our advice, therefore is, us it has always
been, to evo"y man who owns an acre of land
plant trees. Don't be afraid of ovcrstuck.
Ing the market with any kind of lIui except
such as your fathers used to grow, aud some
OF you still pcrpctuatc; because tho refacd
and improved tnstes Of the world demand
and will have, if it is procurabIc. the best
that can be grown.--N. T.. Farmer.