Each year records are made of private revenues from the growth and sale of fruits. "Without reproducing these records of receipts, amounting to from three to five hundred dollars per acre from strawberries; of six to twelve hundred dollars per acre from grapes; of eight to twelve hundred dollars per acre from pears; of two to four hundred for apples, besides innumerable accounts of twenty, thirty, forty, and even eighty, dollars being realized from the fruit of single trees, we will utter one single statement, viz., that where the fruit grown is adapted to the soil and climate, no crop can be grown that will return as large a revenue ten years in succession as fruit. To this, however, we must add, that fruit-growing is a business, and will no more take care of itself than the business of the merchant. Both may move on awhile under the labors of employees, but the eye, knowledge, and guidance of the owner must be given from day to day, and month to month, winter and summer, in order to insure successful results.

These records of large products, it must be recollected, are mostly from those who have but one or two trees, and who visit, watch, prune, and manure them almost daily, and with as much care as a mother does her children; and he who undertakes fruit-growing, calculating his profits from these records, must expect that his whole time, care, and attention will be devoted to his business. What banker would look for good profits if he only looked at his correspondence and bills of exchange, etc., once in a week or two, leaving the management, meantime, to the care of young and inexperienced hands? and yet his chances of profits are just as good as those of the fruit-grower who depends upon the management of paid labor. An interest in, a love of, and attention to the business are requisite to profitable fruit-growing; but with such interest, love, and attention, fruit-growing proves, wherever pursued, a profitable and pleasing occupation.

Flower-Beds are much benefited, and the durability of the flowers, together with their brilliancy, much increased where the ground is shaded as it were, or protected by a covering about two inches deep of peat soil, leaf loam, or moss from the woods.