Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-05-15
|HEALTH-WEALTH
IN HOME GARDEN
Brings Pleasure and Health
full Employment as Well
as Profit.

Washington, May 13.-One of the
most important features or sunur-
ban home, from the standpoint OF
health, is fruit garden maintained
for the purpose of supplying the
family with fruits. 1t is amazing tha;
even those who have suitable situa-
tons and facilities for raising fra1ts
and who cannot purchase them be.
cause Of remoteness from markets
have not established home fruit
gardens, says the department OF
agriculture.
The Inhabitants of this country
are notably fruit-loving and fruit
eating people. Notwithstanding this
however, fruit culture has grown te
be classed among specialitieS, an(
few persons who consume fruit are
actual growers. The possibilities in
fruit culture upon restricted areas
have been very generally overlooked
with the result that many persons
who own a suburban home or even
a farm, nov look upon frnl1 as lux
ury. A great deal of the land which
is now practically wasted and en-
tirely unremunerative can he made
to produce fruits in sufficient nuan-
tity to give them regular place up
on the family bill of fare, aud at the
same time, add greatly tG the at
Effectiveness of the table and health
fulness of the diet.
With the growth of commercial
fruit interests of the United States
the home fruit garden has been over
IL, !, ri hi
the home garden and the orchard arc
essential to the good 81 the com
munity, they bear different relations
to the country as whole. The home
garden is always forerunner OF
commercial development, and even in
those localities where climatic and
soil conditions are adverse to con-
Quoting such industries CT an exleh-
sive scale, the home fruit garden o:
the enthusiastic amateur is Ger: aiu
to be found.
Stimulates Interest in Natural
Objects.
The home production of fruit slim
ulates an interest and love tor nat
ural objects, which can only be &C
quired by that familiarity WITH them
which comes through their culture
The cultivation of fruits teaches dis
elimination. If every purchaser was
good Judge Of the different kinds
of fruits, the demand for fruits OF
high quality, to produce which is
the ambition of every amateur as
we'll as every professional fruit grow
er, would become reality. The en-
couragement of the cultivation Of
tine fruits in the home garden viii
do much toward. teaching buyers to
discriminate between the good anC
the inferior varieties of fruit.
The maintenance of a fruit garden
brings pleasure and healthful en-
ployment, and as ones interest in
growing plants increases, this. EN-
ployment Instead of proving a hard
ship, will become a great source OF
pleasure. The possession of tree
which one has planted and reared tt
fruit production carries an added in
terest in its product as we'll as iI
the operation by which it was secur.
ed.
Most persons engaged in the cult
| walton of home fruit gardens will
have as their chief aim the produc
! ton of fruit for the family table, aa(
the pleasure it affords. Fruit growing
| should claim the attention of the
| producer from early spring to late
| autumn.
| Things to Know.
In order to secure satisfactory re
| suits in a limited area devoted t.
fruit culture one must know tht
methods of pruning, training, ant
culture best suited to the space a
command. In proportion to size
dwarf trees are more fruitful thai
standards; they come into bearins
sooner and are therefore of specia
value for use in fruit gardens.
At planting time all broken or de
cayed roots should be cut away
| leaving only smooth-cut surfaces an,
| healthy wood to come in contact witt
| the soil. If large part of the roo
area of the plant has been lost il
transplanting, the top should be Gu
back in proportion to the roots re
naming. BY so doing the demand
made by the top when the plan
starts into growth can be met by the
root.
The holes in which trees, pines
or shrubs are to be set should b.
ample, so that the roots Of the
plants may have full spread with