CHAPTER III. 



Making the Orchard. 



IF we begin right and continue with such ordinary 

 care and prudence as would be bestowed upon 

 any other industry upon a farm for the first year or 

 two, the orchard should, and generally will be, an 

 established success. This beginning right, and 

 keeping right, at the start, is all important. How- 

 ever careful we may be, and however much work 

 we may bestow upon it after the first year, 

 failure is generally assured if the work was begun 

 wrong. 



To make a good home orchard, one large enough 

 and good enough to supply the entire wants of the 

 family in fruits for every day in the year, is not a 

 play spell. Before undertaking this, determine 

 that you will in the first place buy your trees of 

 some reliable nurseryman, who, if he does not live 

 near you, has an established reputation for honesty, 

 intelligence, and of being a thorough nursery- 

 man. 



In these days nurseries spring up and grow into 

 magnificent proportions at a distance, that are 

 entirely unknown where they are located. Nursery- 

 men too jump into notoriety at a bound, and are 



