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orchard is undoubtedly a thing of beauty, and the owner cer- 

 tainly takes a great deal of satisfaction in it, and it appeals to 

 his esthetic taste ; but the intention is to make money. 



Now fruit gardening has a different purpose, and one reason 

 why it exists is that it gives a man a personal satisfaction and 

 gratifies a whim. At any rate, it is not to make money. This 

 fundamental difference in purpose is the main distinction between 

 fruit gardening and orcharding. 



As I have already referred to this as a matter of style or 

 fashion, we might stop just at this point to note that in these 

 garden matters there are a great many changing styles. Some- 

 times one kind of garden is fashionable and sometimes another. 

 We have all heard about our grandmother's gardens, and we 

 say, as we look at some of the gardens of to-day, that our grand- 

 mother's were old-fashioned. Therefore, we recognize that the 

 fashion has changed between her time, in the early sixties, and 

 ours. At the present time the style in gardens in this country 

 is very largely known to us under two different forms. One 

 is the suburban style, which takes an open front yard and makes 

 an entire display in front of our house ; the other is the elabo- 

 rate kind which provides more ornamentation in the rear of 

 the house and which includes dahlias and other plants. This 

 is fashionable with fashionable people who have fashionable 

 funds at their disposal. 



But there is another kind of garden which has never been 

 recorded in the books as a separate style of gardening, and 

 that is the real fruit garden. That real fruit garden has always 

 had some support in this country. If we could go intcWilder's 

 garden or have a garden such as .-Vndrew Jackson Downing 

 made, then we should have before us a fine example of the 

 garden in which the fruit dominates and is one of the principal 

 elements. And right here I might say that the fruit garden 

 may be very ornamental and still include a great many fruit 

 trees. Of course a great many people suppose that ornamental 

 gardening means dahlias, geraniums, etc. 



But this is not a fair estimate of it at all. for there are a 

 great many common plum trees, peach trees, apple trees, fine in 

 themselves, and which give beautiful eff"ects. They are really 

 beautiful, and they work well into any scheme of ornamental 

 gardening ; so that when a garden is made simply for the effect 



