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And that is why I say without any reserve that a large collec- 

 tion of varieties is a part of gardening. We need them for 

 a great utilitarian purpose. A man doesn't care a snap about 

 a large number of varieties when he is growing for market ; 

 he wants something he can make money out of. That's all 

 right, but it isn't fruit gardening. With fruit gardening you 

 want to begin when the apples are ready and continue it on. 

 A method of having a long succession is one of the important 

 things. 



We find in the management of a fruit garden a great many 

 methods and problems that do not occur in the management 

 of an orchard. A fruit garden is on a smaller scale, and there 

 are more varieties to look out for. Hence more questions will 

 arise than would arise in an orchard where there are but one 

 or two varieties and they are well known to the owner. I know 

 a great many gardens where a man gets delight from and yet 

 they show neglect. I know other gardens that are models of 

 culture and yet there is not so much fun about it, for a hired 

 or employed man does most of the work. A man that is man- 

 aging his own garden does not expect to work himself to death 

 and keep it up to the highest cultivation, but he will get lots of 

 fun out of it just the same. 



Now in a fruit garden the questions of pruning and spraying 

 are there just the same but not to the same extent as in the 

 orchard. They can be attended to or they may not, as the 

 owner sees fit. The business of spraying in a garden is quite 

 dififerent from the orchard. A man that has a large orchard 

 w^ould have the best spraying pump obtainable and all the mod- 

 ern facilities for attending to these things and looking after 

 the trees nicely ; on the other hand, if a man has but a few trees 

 in his yard he can hardly afford to buy an expensive spraying 

 outfit, and consequently he has to get out in the old-fashioned 

 way or else neglect it altogether. 



One of the things which may be spoken about in the growing 

 of a fruit garden is the fact that smaller trees are raised. I 

 think it fair to say that the tendency among commercial fruit 

 growers throughout the country is also toward growing smaller 

 trees. The trees are low to the ground and the tendency seems 

 to be this way. But a small tree belongs more particularly to 

 the fruit garden than to the orchard. Indeed, the fruit gardens 



