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man I advised him to take about fifty of the apple trees in one variety. 

 He owned forty acres of land and in time sold it. This year the present 

 owner sold enough apples off those fifty tre^s to pay the price of the 

 land. About the same time another man bought fifty trees consisting 

 of thirty-seven varieties, and it is needless to say that the sales of 

 fruit did not pay for his land. A conservative estimate of the yield of 

 a seven to ten-year-old tree would be one hundred to three hundred 

 pounds. We can estimate from this how many trees it would take to 

 supply a family. I would think ten to fifteen trees would do it, if well 

 taken care of. In my opinion it would be better to set this number of 

 trees and invest in a small bucket spray pump, than it would to set 

 five times the number of trees and neglect them, which so often happens. 

 However, in planting an orchard of fifty to one hundred trees a small 

 number could be planted in mixed varieties, while the balance could 

 be selected largely of one or two varieties suited to the locality, with the 

 idea in view of selling the surplus. Perhaps apples would be suitable 

 in one place, while cherries or some Other kind of fruit would be better 

 adapted to another locality. 



There are many tree planters in cities and towns who have but a 

 small plat of ground, and can set but perhaps three to six trees. In 

 that case unless I had the time and inclination to use the spray pump 

 continuously, I would eliminate the apple from my list, and plant of 

 other fruits the codling moth did not trouble. By selecting a good 

 seedling stock, three or four varieties of cherries can be grown on one 

 tree, in this way succession of varieties can be had. In the same way 

 plums, pears and other fruits can be grown and in time a few trees 

 be made to produce an abundance of fruit for a small family. 



As to varieties, this will depend largely upon the locality. In apples, 

 the Yellow Transparent and Duchess of Oldenburg for summer, the 

 Gravenstein and King of Tompkins County for fall, and the Northern 

 Spy, Jonathan, Spitzenberg, Grimes Golden and Yellow Newtown Pipp'n 

 for winter would be a good list to select from. 



Bartlett, Fall Butter, D'Anjou, Clairgeau, and Winter Nellis pears 

 would give succession of varieties. 



Abundance, Peach, Washington and Blue Damson plums, Willamette, 

 Italian, and Silver prunes would probably pi'ove a satisfactory selection. 



In cherries. Governor Wood, Royal Ann, Bing, and Lambert for sweet 

 kinds, while Early Richmond, English Morello and Late Duke will 

 answer for sour varieties. I consider Lambert and Late Duke especially 

 valuable on account of lateness as they usually escape the summer rains 

 in this locality, thereby avoiding cracking. 



Peaches and apricots I leave out of the list as I have little success 

 in growing them where I live, and do not know much about them. 



After the tree is once planted do not neglect to care for it, as there':y 

 comes great pleasure as well as profit. 



What pleasure there is in the thought of not only being the grower 

 but also the consumer. The home orchardist has solved the great prob- 

 lem that has vexed the commercial orchardist for years, that of reach- 



