. Descriptive catalogue of Mill Creek Nurseries : fruit growing, its profits and slect market varieties. Nurseries (Horticulture), Georgia, Catalogs; Vegetables, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs. 32. $>.. Br( RUIT growing for profit and fruit growing for home use or for pleasure can all be made very profitable. A family orchard comprising all kinds of fruits, contain- ing one to three acres, is one of the best investments to be made for home use. There is nothing you cau grow that is more healthful than fruit. The more we consume the less medical bills we have to pay. For profit, there is no

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. Descriptive catalogue of Mill Creek Nurseries : fruit growing, its profits and slect market varieties. Nurseries (Horticulture), Georgia, Catalogs; Vegetables, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs. 32. $>.. Br( RUIT growing for profit and fruit growing for home use or for pleasure can all be made very profitable. A family orchard comprising all kinds of fruits, contain- ing one to three acres, is one of the best investments to be made for home use. There is nothing you cau grow that is more healthful than fruit. The more we consume the less medical bills we have to pay. For profit, there is noth- ing we can plant that is more remunerative than fruit. First, we take the peach, with all the new and latest introductions. The large markets at the East and West and a number at the South consume all the fruits we grow, at profitable prices, provided you ship none but select fruit, exercise care in packing, use the neatest and strongest packages, ship over the quickest and best route, and consign to none but reliable and established commission houses. By so doing, you will be handsomely rewarded. What I say about fruit growing is from a life-time experience and close observation. About fifteen years ago we only grew on a small scale, say from ten to fifteen acres. The first commission house we became acquainted with in New York was Messrs. Archdeacon & Co., who handled the first Georgia peaches, and at that time sold select peaches at $5 per one-third bushel crate, which held from thirty to forty of the Elberta and Belle of Georgia varieties, being from eleven to sixteen cents each. Wild Goose Plums sold at $5 to $6 per crate of the same size. At that time there were no Georgia pea^ches on the market, but at the present day the Georgia peaches command the highest price on the market, and the trade calls for them in preference to Cali- fornia or any otlrers. California produces the color, but Georgia furnishes the color, flavor, size and quality. While in New York last