Excerpt from An American Fruit Farm: Its Selection and Management for Profit and for Pleasure HE fruit-farm, of. Which this book is a record, lies in the Lake Shore Valley, on the southern shore of Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania, a region rich in horticulture. The book is a record of many years' experience at home, of much observation abroad, and is offered as a modest contribution to a subject of greatly increasing interest in our own country. Successful horticulture implies ceaseless attention and obedience to the laws of climate, planting, and cultivation, not excluding such elements as soil-fertility, labor, administration, and birds. The biography of any well-conducted fruit-farm is a chapter in the history of success. Horticulture in America is opportunity, but as yet we are merely at the threshold of knowing how to use the land. The illustrations are from photo graphs taken - with three exceptions - on the fruit farm whose history is here related. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.