CHAPTER X. 



HOW TO START THE LADS. 



THIS suggestion is mentioned so that even the youngest 

 may be set thinking how he can best start upon practical 

 fruit growing without capital. 



"Where there's a will there's a way/' and as it is 

 usually only the beginning that is hard, all are advised 

 to make a start at once in some shape, if it is only by 

 sowing a few apple or pear pips, or kernels of plums or 

 cherries, and seeds of any soft fruits early in spring, in 

 flower pots. 



The young lad that can be induced to do that even, 

 has put his foot possibly on the first rung of the ladder 

 that will lead on to ultimate fortune. He may at least 

 thereby acquire habits of patience and observation that 

 will be invaluable to him in every condition of life, and 

 the produce of his fruit pips or stones in ten or fifteen 

 years' time will become, if carefully trained, useful and 

 valuable orchard trees. Possibly, if worthless for their 

 own fruit, they will have been found suitable by the 

 skilled fruit grower for having grafted upon them some 

 well-known variety for which each may be especially 

 adapted. And it may be that the produce of the pip or 

 stone will prove a valuable new variety, as it is in this 

 way that new sorts are produced. 



