The Farmers Home Journal referring to our recent note on new fruits, makes the following good point in addition :

" To please the eye, is the aim of the fruit seller, and it is no longer an object to consider the quality and taste. Hence only those sorts are grown that will meet these requirements, and nurserymen have a demand for such trees and plants and vines as will produce fruit that suit the demand in the market. Fruit-growers and nurserymen thus co-operate in supplying such as will compete with transported fruits, and which will themselves bear safe transportation hundreds of miles to other markets. Thus quality is sacrificed to these commercial requirements. The amateur fruit-grower gives up his interest in fruit culture and drops out of competition with the market gardener. Horticultural societies fall under the control of professional fruit growers and nurserymen. Horticultural literature and essays all concentrate on the business aspects of the question and the old time enthusiasm for fruit culture for the love of it and for the glory of its honors has become a thing of the past".