Evening star., 1932-07-02

| trees are being planted there. first of
all, simply as trees, not particularly
| for their fruit.
Edible fruit, in most such cases. be-
comes second run stuff.
The grace of the average apple tree,
| its certain picturesque quality tran
scends in such paintings its yield.
| 1t is true, of course, that the fruit,
rather than the leaf, gives the apple,
| the pear. the ounce, the peach, and
! others, their names.
Such trees have been planted in the
past solely for their edible products
In the future, it would seem. more
| and more of them will be put in be-
| cause of their qualities as good trees
This is as 1t should be, many will
| think.
| A tree. no more than a person. should
| be judged solely on some one excellent
point.
Or bad point, either.
| Trees, as well as human beings. are
composites, blends of the good and bad.
A fine variety of apple need not be
| thought of solely in terms of its fruits.
It will do it good, in the long run,
| for some to see it as gnarled beauty,
adding dignity and certain homelike
| quality to a place.
| Most of the other fruit trees possess
many of the good qualities of the apple,
as trees, at the same time they add
| interest by their individuality.
There can be no gHinsaying that such
| trees need more spraying if one is going
/ to garden according to the books.
! The joke is that many homeowners
never read the books. and yet their gar
dens seem to get along very well.
| In this. as in other matters, the
/ ie dividad int fyxyo affe
who like to read about what they are
| interested in, and those who never read
/ line.
| Which is the best gardener
| There can be no doubt who is the
best gardener, everything else being
equal: it is he or she who somehow is
! born with the knack of handling plants.
! Such people, whether they read about
/ gardening or not, are the best gar
| deners, now and forever, and there can
never be the slightest bit of doubt
about 1t.
They know, by sort of instinct. the
| precise thing to do. and how to do it,
/ but above all they are interested in
every single process of the growing
| game.
They know the shape of all leaves
almost instinctively can tell you which
curious small green thing in the ground
| is a cultivated plant and which weed :
they are never in a hurry, wanting to
see a flower two or three months too
early, but are content to watch the
natural development of the specimen.
All these matters are too much bother
to many person who honestly loves
the garden, but is unwilling, and un-
fitted by temperament. to put these lov-
| ing touches on so many things.
/
can be no doubt who are the best gar
deners.
Yet the gardener who refuses to read
books and articles on gardening cuts
| himself off from much enjoyment. if
his nature happens to run that way,
of course.
| There can be no forcing of the
| gardener, any more than of his plants.
! He who contemplates the planting
of fruit tree. or maybe two, may read
| about fruit trees with profit, and much
entertainment, but he should not per-
init the advice as to spraying and
diseases in general to keep him from
doing the planting.
/ There are hundreds of cultivated fruit
trees growing without special care.
Somehow or other they turn out
pretty we'll every year
Even the sturdy naples, planted en-
tirely for ornamental shade purposes,
are supposed to be sprayed, but few
owners ever 90 it.
Trees were endowed, in the begin
ming, with resistant qualities which still
serve them well, despite the huge in
crease in the numbers of their enemies.
No one should be deferred because of
these enemies from planting them at
the proper times.