Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-17
Orchards, Apples. and the Market.

"Dayid I am going to quit the nursery
business. In twenty-onc years fruit will be
drug in New York city. Why, everybody is
setting out orchards. Just look around this
neighborhood. There is deacon Jones has
lust set out 500 trees; Tom Smith 400, and his
brother Jim will have 1000 next spring, and
so OIL at that rate all over the country-graft-
ed fruit. too. none of it for cider. Now what
do you suppose is to become OF all these apples
| tell YOU what it is, David we must wind up
the nursery business or we shall break hat.-
Every body is going crazy about fruit. Every
body will grow it, but 10 body buy 1t, few
years hence"
This prognostication was made more than
twenty wears ago by sensible man engaged In
propagating choice fruits for sale III Central
New York, and no doubt the speaker honestly
believed the days of the nursery man were well
nigh numered. Brother David, however. was
of a different opinion. He did not believe 1t
was so easy to overstock the market with such
fruit 'as no other than American soil and
climate can produce He did not believe ere
twenty years time would elapse everybody
would have an orchard, the products of which
would he so unsaleable, and the business so I'M
profitable. the owner could have no desire to
plant more or better, or newer varieties OF trees
consequently he urged that the business should
be perseveringly continued until the dawning
of the evil day was more visible in the horizon.
What has been the result \ sale of 1000
apple trees and 1000 of other fruits during the
planting season of last year, and the prospect
for the next equally good The very men who
had planted 500. have increased 1000, and
some of them have doubled that tcn-fold; and
vet the market is now better than it ever was
before for all the choice varieties of the pro-
duct Of orchard vineyard, or garden. The
market is not vet gluttcd nor can 1t be while
millions of mouths continually water for the
luscious fruits which contrast so advantageOusly
with the sour crabs, five to pint" which
filled the market twenty years ago. The
market cannot be glutted with such fruit as the
Ncwtown pippns, Roxbury russetS Rhode
Island greetings, Baldwins, Bellefucr, Swaar
Domino, and great variety of other excellent
winter keeping apples while the luNury-lOying
mouths Of old England are within two weeks
I'VE 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 ofthat
once far away western wild, known in our boy
hood as New Connecticut. But still the
market is not glutted, nor will it be, though
all Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wis,
consin, shall pour in their golden treasures OF
golden pippns from their unbounded plains OF
the richest fruit bearing land the world ever
saw, while that same world full of people
possess the taste they now DO for choice, deli
cious fruits.
Our advice, therefore, is, as it has always
been, to every man who owns an acre ofland-
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 i'm
proved tastes of the world demand, and will
have, if it is procurable, the best that can be
grown.-OS,ceg0 Journal.