ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



other fruit trees, and some nitrate of soda 

 and bone meal dug about them in the 

 Spring. The best varieties are Rea's Mam- 

 moth, and Apple. 



The few fruit trees grown in a garden 

 are more likely to be free from disease than 

 where they are grown by thousands in great 

 orchards. Careful cultivation, with preven- 

 tion by spraying and cutting, and a sharp 

 lookout for borers and insects, will reward 

 the gardener with beautiful trees and excel- 

 lent crops of fruit to delight family and 

 friends. A man can easily spray all the 

 trees in a home garden in a forenoon, and 

 the other necessary work in caring for them 

 takes but a short time. I have often thought 

 that if we had room for but six trees, one 

 of them would be an apple tree, one a red 

 cherry, and the others would be a locust, 

 a catalpa, a white pine, and a hemlock 

 spruce. The four deciduous trees would 

 give us blossoms in May and June, with 

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