. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 411 FRUIT GROWING IN ANNAPOLIS (Concluded.) [|T has been already stated that there are about 12,800 acres now bearing apples, with 800 more planted with young trees. But this is only the beginning. There S= are at least 250,000 acres in this valley capable of pro- | ducing fruit, and sooner or later the whole valley will be covered with apple trees or other varieties || of fruit, including the small fruits. Only a few % farmers have ventured on an extensive planting. It is usua
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 411 FRUIT GROWING IN ANNAPOLIS (Concluded.) [|T has been already stated that there are about 12,800 acres now bearing apples, with 800 more planted with young trees. But this is only the beginning. There S= are at least 250,000 acres in this valley capable of pro- | ducing fruit, and sooner or later the whole valley will be covered with apple trees or other varieties || of fruit, including the small fruits. Only a few % farmers have ventured on an extensive planting. It is usual for the farmers to have from one to five acres covered with trees. Scarcely any of the established orchards cover more than ten or E twelve acres, whereas it is maintained by those '-tfc qualified to form an opinion, that splendid profits PI would be obtained by covering hundreds of acres with trees. Judge Weatherbe, who has bought a fruit farm in the valley, has covered 50 acres with young trees, which are now five or six years old, and will presently be bearing. It is contended, and not without reason, that if there are large profits in one acre of fruit, there will be proportionally larger profits from 100 acres. The reason that more men of speculative temper- ment do not engage in fruit-growing in the valley, as an investment, is to be found in the absence of the gambling element. Ten years at least must elapse before the trees begin to bear, and at least twenty years must pass before they are in full bearing. Most men who are seeking wealth prefer some enterprise in which, coupled with greater risks, there are chances of more immediate profits. Fifteen or twenty years seems a long time to wait for large returns from even small investments. Nevertheless, fruit companies have already been incorpor- ated in the valley, the object of which is to purchase large tracts of land and cover them with fruit, and by cultivating plums and other varieties which bear earlier, it is hop
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