218 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Why not take that front yard now used for a calf and pig pasture 

 and right on that spot pull down a section of paradise and live in it and 

 have some enjoyment in life? Forty years ago when you were strug- 

 gling for existence you could not afford it. Now you can. When you 

 are tired, take a vacation on your own ground. Set aside a spot for an 

 arboretum. In it have every kind of tree that will grow in your climate. 

 Go out there and rest in the shade when the sun is hot. Plant all kinds 

 of blooming shrubs and every evergreen that finds yours a congenial 

 climate. Will it pay? Yes, ten times over. Adopt our slogan, Beauty 

 is wealth. Raise a lot of it and be rich. 



WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT APPLES? 



You have probably observed that some were deliclously fine flavored 

 and others the exact opposite, but do you really know or remember the 

 names of the varieties of either class? 



If you can recognize a half dozen kinds you belong to a select mi- 

 nority, for the majority do not know even three. 



Apples are apples to most consumers, and when they look over the 

 stock on the fruit stands they are apt to buy the handsomest specimens. 

 These varieties may be Ben Davis or some of his handsomer cousins, 

 and they do not give satisfaction, so the buyer concludes that he has lost 

 his taste for apples. He vaguely remembers that when he was a boy 

 there used to be apples that were really good, and he wonders why they 

 don't grow that kind any more. The truth is that never before did the 

 world have such magnificent high quality- in apples as it has now, and 

 a little education on the part of buyers would enable them to select the 

 very ones that would suit them to a dot. 



In the first place the apples should be used in their proper seasons 

 only. Some varieties are for summer only, others for fall use; then 

 come the early winter or holiday kinds, and after them the late keepers. 

 Each of these is at its best for a limited period of time until spring. 



An early apple might be kept in cold storage without actually spoil- 

 ing, but its best flavor is gone. On the other hand, the fruit stands 

 everywhere are crowded in the fall with brilliant showy apples that will 

 not mature for months afterward, and are entirely unfit for consumption 

 at the time they are foisted upon the city rubes. 



If your grocer or fruiterer has a real knowledge of the fruit he is 

 selling, he will advise you to buy the seasonable varieties. If you want 

 fruit to eat out of hand he can give you apples that are just in their 

 prime that particular month, apples of tender flesh, juicy and sprightly 

 with a brisk acid, a mild sub-acid, or rich and sweet to suit your taste. 



If you want the apples for pies or sauce, or baking, there are varieties 

 particularly suited for each of those uses, although some kinds are 

 good in all ways. 



Following is a guide for fruit buyers recently published by the 

 Northwestern Fruit Exchange, that is worth keeping for reference. 



