The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-03-07
farmers Department.
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ORCHARDS APPLES, AND THE
MARKETS


David, I am going to quit the nur-
Hery business. In t~Wenty-one years fruit
will be a drug in New York city
Why, everybody is setting ont orchards.
just look around this neighborhood =
There is deacon Jones has just set out
500 trees; Tom Smith 400, and his
brother Jim will have 1000 next Spring,
and so on, at that rate all over the
country-grafted fruit too, none of it
for cider. Now what do you supposei is
to become of all these apples I tell
you what it is David, we must. wind
up the nursery business or We shall
break fat. Everybody is going crazy
about fruit. Everybody will grow it,
but nobody buy it, a few years hence
This representation was made more
than twenty years ago, by a sensible
IMAM engaged in propagating choice
fruits for sale, in Central New York,
and so the speaker honestly believed
the days of nursefymen we're well niga
numbered. Brother David, however,
was ola different opinion. He did not
believe it was easy to overstock the
market with such fruit as no other than
American soil and climate can produce.
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time would elapse everybody would have
an orchard, the products of which would
be so unsaleable, and, the business so
Improbable, the owner could have no
desire to plant more, or better, or new
er varieties of trees consequently he
urged that the business should be per-
severingly continued until the daWning
of the evil day was moro visible in the
horizon.
What has been the result ? A sale
of 10000 apple trees and 1000 Of, 9th
er fruits, during the planting season of
the last year, and the prospect for tho
next equally good The very men who
had planted 500, have increased 1000,
and some Of them have doubled that
.tenfold ; and yet the market is now bet
ter than it ever was before, for alb the
choice varieties of the product of or
chard, vineyard, or garden. The mar
ket Is not yet glutted, nor cansit be
while millions of mouths continually
water for the luscious fruits which con-
trast so advantageously with the sour
crabs, I" five to- pint" which filled the
market twenty years ago. The market
cannot be glutted with such fruits as
Newton PippiBs, ~Roxbury erussets,
Rhode Island greetings, Baldwins,
Bellelour, Swaar, Domino, andagreat
variety of other excellent winter keep
ing apples, while the luxury-loving
mouths of old England are within two
weeks, 1--WE have done counting distance
by miles, of the fruit bearing hills of
New England. Nay, not only New
England and New York, but the ever
bearing trees Of the rich plains of that
once far away western Wild, known In
our boyheed as New Connections. But
still the market is not glutted, nor will
it be, thoughan Ohio, Michigan, Indi-
ana, Illinois, and Wisconsin will pour In
their golden treasures of golden pippins
from their unbounded plains of the rich
est fruit bearing land the world eEer
saw, while that same world full of peo-
pie possess the taste they now do for
choice, delicious fruits. r
Our advice, therefore is, as has al
ways been, to every man who owns an
acre of land-plant trees. Don't be
afraid of oVerstocking the market with
any kind of fruit, except such as your
fathers used to grow, and some of you
still perpetuate; because the refined
and improved tastes Of the world de-
mand, and will have, if it is procurable,
the bas@ That can be grown.-N. E.
Farmer.