The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-24
IMPROVEMENT Q FRUIT
Better Results Now Obtained
in Combating Insects and
Disease.
DEMAND FOR THE BEST.
New and Superior Varieties Are An.
nusIIy introdueedAMsrksts are Sci.
dom Fully Supplied With Choice
Fruit-Flnest Qualities said to be
Raised In Temperate zone.

Raised In Temperate Zone.
Fruit growing is one of the leading
industries, and In addition to the new
Kinds annually introduced by our
leading hortlculturists fruits hereto.
fore unknown have been brought to
this country from abroad to assist In
increasing the varieties. We Import
large quantities of fruit, as consumers
desire some kinds that we cannot
get within our own limits, but really
because we do not supply the demand
for our own native fruits. In no year
within the past quarter of a century
have we been supplied with suf-
fciency OF apples. During certain
periods of the year they bring larger
prices than do oranges; the bulk OF
the peach crop is annually sold when
the trees are in blossom, and the
demand for pears has been very mucn
increased Of late years. owing to the
great improvement that has been
made with this fruit When the buy.
ers cum procure choice fruit of any
kind prices seem to be no objection,
as fruit OF good quality always sells
readily. The curcplio has almost oh.
liberated the plum, but of late the
pest has been fought successfully,
and with a steady Improvement be.
Ing made with the plum II will no
doubt in few years resume ana
hold its place by the side of our most
favored delicacies. Methods of cult.
walton may have much to do with
disease of pear trees, but probably
forcing the trees to q very rapid
growth Is the cause more than any.
thing else of pear blight which
spreads from one tree TO others. Our
orchards of improved pears have not
been treated In natural manner,
for the pear tree Is somewhat slow
In growth and does not seem to like
much forcing, but growers have com.
PEELED the improved varieties to as.
sumo conditions not suitable for
health and vigOr, which render the
trees subject TO the blight and other
diseases incidental to pears.
Great Improvement has been made
In the several varieties of fruits dur
ing the nineteenth century. Straw.
berries are now rlvaling plums in
size, goosebefries are as ,arge as
cherries, raspberries are larger and
of better quality ard the blackberry,
once "a nuisance on some farms, 70
now cultivated as profitable fruit.
The demand instead of decreasing
from its cultivation, has Increased
and new markets are opened every
season. IL Is useless to further spe.
city the kinds, for the raspberry, cur.
rant, grape, cherry and ounce have
their enthusiastic admirers. Even the
hucklebeTy whether blueberry or
whOrtleberry), as 1t is called, will
soon be among the cultivated fruits,
a place u should have had long ago.
In some sections where the peach had
been cultivated but disappeared II
now thriVes again. Apples are shipped
to Europe, yet a ready market exists
near all farms for his king of fruits.
lt Is claimed by those who /have
made comparisons that the fruits of
the temperate zone are superior In
every respect to the best that are
produced In the tropics, but lndiyid
ual preferences ON the part of con.
sumers naturally regulate the supply
and demand, which, Of course, I'm.
fiuence prices.
Larger areas are annually being de-
voted to fruit As the demand for
fruit Increases It is apparent that
new fields are opening In those sec
tions not adhp-ed for special farming
Or stock raising Stony hillsides that
are now nnprofitabie ca nbe made to
blossom with each returning spring.
The grape will grow on. soils that
refuse nourishment to cereal crops,
and the blackberry Is successfully
grown on the llghtest sands. With
Ill the boast of favored sections there
net profit per acre that is possible
with small fruits. Lands that VIII not
grow a blade OF grass pay the grower
N pears, blackberries and raspber.
les, and the better qualities or soil
produce the best of Strawberries. n
here is a failure in growing fruit 1t
S sometimes due to carelessness OF |
he grower. Trees and vines, like |
lnythlng else, must receive the care |
md attention of the grower, must
Do properly cultivated and pruned |
md the fruit judiciously prepared for
market The curcullo must be fought, I
he borer killed and the miller and
caterpillar destroyed. II the work ss
Vell done, and the grower is patient,
Us reward will surely come, for there
; an excellent opportunity for enterlq q
rising fruit growers TO increase their
rofts by producing fruit of the best
uality. Low prices occur at times
ecanse the market is oVersupplied
nth inferior frnit, but there Is al.
rays q good demand for that which
choice, and at good prices.