The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-24
HOME Fruit
GARDENS ARE.
ADVOCATED
BY the Department of AgriCuI-
ture, Which Says They Are
important to Health.

WASHINGTON, D. G., April ~
One of the most important features
OF suburban home, from the stand.
point of health, is fruit garden
maintained for the purpose of sup
plying the family with fruit It is
suitable situations and facilities for
raising fruits, and who cannot p1r-
chase them becau use of remoteness
from markets, have not estab lished
home fruit gardens, says the depart
ment Of agriculture.
The inhabitants of this country
are notably a fIuit-loying and fruit
eating people. Notwithsta Inlding
this, however. fruit culture has
grown to be classed among the spe-
ciaIties, and few persons who CON
Isume fruit are actual growers. The
possibilities in fruit culture upon
restricted areas have been very gem
crally overlooked with the result
that many persons who own a subur-
ban home. or even a farm, now look
upon fruit as Iuxury. A great
deal of the land which is HOW prac-
ideally wasted and entirely lrnremH-
lucrative can be made to produce
fruits in sufficient quantity to give
\ them a regular place upon the lam
lily bill OF fare, and at the same time
/ add greatly to the attractfveness OF
the table and healthfulness of the
diet.
| With the growth Of commercial
| fruit Interests OF the United States
the home fruit garden has been over
shadowed by the orchard. While
both the home garden and the
orchard are essential to the good of
| the community, they bear different
relations to the country as a whole.
The home garden is always a fore
runner Of commercial development.
and even in those localities where
Iclimatic and soil conditions are adj
verse to conducting such industries
lon an extensive scale, tbs lone is.1it
garden of tho enthusiastic amateur
lis certain TO be found.
The home production tof fruit
stimulates an interest and love for
natural objects, wiIiEii can only be
them which comes through their
culture. The cultivation OF fruits
teaches Discrimination. II 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 anna
teur as we'll as every professional
fruit grower. beeomes4a reality fThe
encogragenlent of tho cuhivatfo4 p
hne- fruits in the home garden will
do much toward teaching buyers to
discriminate between the good and
the Inferior varieties Of fruit.
The maintenance of a fruit gar
den brings pleasure and, nealthtul
employment, and as ones interest IN
growing plants increases. this en-
ploynlent Instead OF proving "a hard
ship, will become a great source OF
pleasure. The possession OF tree
which one has planted and reared
Ito fruit production carries an added
interest in its product as we'll asrfn
the operation by WHICH it was Sc
cured, zss .tss
For the Family Table.
Most pers6ns engaged in the cui-
tiystioa of home fruit gardens Will
have as their chief aim the produc-
ton of fruit for the family table,
aud the pleasure IL Affords. s Fruit
growing should claim the attsnton
of the producer from early spring to
late autumn.
In order TO secure satisfactory re-
only oas ssERoAEo ouuETHEW
That IL LAXATIVE BRDMO QIIN1Nf4r