People who enjoy everywhere delicious fruit at very moderate prices, scarcely stop to think of how much they are indebted to a few persevering men, who have settled in various districts, and by studying improved modes of culture produced abundance where before sterility reigned. One of these in Ohio is Mr. M. Crawford, who does much good service as Secretary of the Summitt county (Ohio), Horticultural Society.

Reading the past summer in a Western paper the following extract in relation to the enormous business done in strawberries, we fancy we are not mistaken in identifying this gentleman with so much of the immense good to the whole community that has followed this splendid work :

"The Barnesville district of Ohio this week exhibited its wonder in strawbery culture to the eager eyes of visiting horticulturists, as our delegate has reported. But its products are eclipsed by a belt of territory lying along the Illinois Central Railroad, over which special thunderbolt express' fruit trains have been run on schedule time for thirteen seasons, until it now consists of 30 refrigerator carloads per day, 22 of which go to the commission men of Chicago, whose 800,000 inhabitants consume 435,600 quarts per day, at a cost of $15,-000 for each train load, or about $350,000 for the three weeks' season. This represents only a small part of the traffic in the fruits of this country, which is constantly increasing. The ease and certainty with which they may be grown is reason why it should be done".