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GkOW YOUR OWN FRUIT
A Few Trees Will Give You an Album
dance; What to Get For Home
Orchard; And How to Buy Them.

! ed space, apples, peaches, plums,
raspDeTrles, strawberries, etc, for
i your own table and for canning.
Fruit trees and plants are cheaper
! this year than they have been in a
j long time. Why not start now?
How many dollars a year do you
| spend for truit-either fresh or in
| cans?
Did you ever stop to think that
half that sum invested in a few fruit
trees, would give you many times
the amount OF fruit you bUy-and
keep on giving it to you, year after
year?
Ii you have ground enough for a
fair-sized garden, you have room
enough for fruit. A single peach
tree will yield from SO to $50 quarts
OF fruit. l have seen 20 16-quart
baskets taken from single tree un-
der regular commercial culture. A
good young apple tree will give from
TWO to four barrels of fruit.
And fruit trees require so little
care, as compared to vegetables, that
your whole home orchard will not
take many hours work, during the
entire year.
Moreover you can grow on your
own trees, just as fine peaches and
apples as you pay five to fifteen cents
apiece for at the fruit stores. There
was time, not many years ago,
when the commercial grower had a
big advantage over the home gard
ner. That was when modern met
hods of spraying first came into use,
| and most of the SPRAYS" had to be
mixed on the job. But now you can
get good ready-tO-use sprays of all
KINDS. and an effective hand-poWer
sprayer suitable for taking care OF
few trees. So it is possible to pro-
duce homegrown fruit of the very
highest quality; and often of super
ior flavor, because such things as
peaches, cherries, and plums, should
ripen on the tree to develop their
full sugar content.
Good Selection For A Home Garden
l am often asked, What shall l
plant to give good well-balanced
supply of fruit for my home table
and for canning?
Now of course there can be no
general prescription for the home
frult-garden, any more than there
can be for the home vegetable gar
den, because peoples tastes differ
SO greatly. But in this article, and
the ones to follow, have endeayored
to answer that question in a way
that will enable the beginner, to
select the kind of fruit-garden that
will suit him or her, without making
those beginners mistakes that often
cause dis appointment and several
years lost time. So far as any
mention of particular varieties is
concerned, however, the reader
should keep in mind that some
varieties do better than others in
dinerent sections. So while, all the
sorts | mention are old standbys that
nave given very general satisfaction
over a wide range of conditions, or
new ones that have made good"
-DSyUnu question, nevertheless it IS
always well to ask the advice of the
nurseryman from whom you buy
your trees. Any reliable nursery
man will answer your questions
honestly; and will not knowingly
send you variety that will not do
well in your section. The American
association of Nurserymen, for whom
ing a special effort to have all its
members (some four hundred of the
most reliable concerns in the busi-
ness) do everything possible to as
sist their customers to select the
best things for their conditions, and
TO help them succeed with them af-
ter they plant them
But. to get results such as you
can and should expect you must al
so do your part, especially in plant
ing and in caring for your little trees
during the first season. This will
not take much time; but trees can
not be struck in the ground and left
to themselves. Even beans and
sweet corn can't be grown that way.
Now, as to just what you will want
in your garden.
Apples, perhaps, come first:-
though if your space is very limited
it may be better to put in only
peaches. plums, and cherries. Don't
forget, however. that an apple makes
an ideal shade tree; and, in bloom, it
is one of the most beautiful things
that the Creator ever placed on
earth. Moreover, you can get many
of the best table varieties, growing
on dwarf stocks-that is, the tree
will always remain small. although
the fruit is full sized. But dwarfs
require more attention in the way OF
pruning, than the standard kinds.
If l had room for only a half dozen
apples-and that is enough to give
well-stocked cellar, as well as all
that can be used for dessert or cook
ing during late summer and fall
would plant one of each of the fol-
lowing: Red Astrachan for very
early fruit, or Dutchess of Olden-
berg which fruits at an earlier age;
followed by Grimes Golden, a good
keeper; delicious. most popular of
the Western boxed apples sold so
largely in the big Eastern cities, but
grows well everywhere; Paragon,
another favorite market sort, good
for both dessert and cooking; and
Roxbury Russett.
Four varieties of pears will give
supply from summer until after
New Years; Bartlett, Anjou, Seckel
and Winter Nelis, will make Z. very
satisfactory collection.
AS it is almost impossible to have
to many peaches, six varieties will
be none too many. Champion, quail
ity considered. is perhaps the most
satisfactory of the earlier sorts;
Crawford's Late. Belle of Georgia,
Elberta, J. H. Hale, and Iron Noun
tain, might be used to complete the
sextette. The latter is rather
small and of whitish color, with no
bright red cheeks" but a. freestone
and of extra fine flavor for a very
late sort.
AS to cherries. here are at least
two sorts you want if you like
cherry pie-Early Richmond and
Montmorency Both of these are
sour" or acid cherries. Black Tar
tartan and Nepoleon, or Bing. would
make couple of "sweet" ones to go
| with them. Bradshaw and Goes
Golden Drop, and Abundance and
Burbank, make good collection OF
! vplums, the latter two being of the
| Japanese type.
Whom ordarino fruit trees either