ON SPECIFIC NEEDS 
cannot be expected to supply similar products. 
But in point of fact it is well within the possi- 
bilities to produce good orchard fruits wherever 
the trees exist that produce any fruit at all. Con- 
ditions of soil and climate cannot, of course, be 
ignored. One cannot grow oranges in Canada or 
grapefruit in New England—as yet. But if you 
have apple trees or pears or plums or cherries that 
bear fruit, it is a matter of your own choice 
whether they shall bear good fruit or bad. 
All that is necessary is that you should send 
to some reputable nurseryman or orchardist and 
secure cions of good variety for grafting on your 
trees. 
All apple trees are closely related, the culti- 
vated varieties being without exception of mixed 
strains. The same is true of pears and plums and 
cherries. In each case you may graft on your 
native stock cions of any variety of the same 
species, or a dozen or a score of different vari- 
eties, and, if the work is done properly and at the 
right season, the new twigs will soon become a 
part of the old tree as regards vitality and capacity 
for growth and fruiting; but—as we have learned 
in earlier chapters—they will retain their inherent 
hereditary tendencies as to quality of fruit. 
Growing side by side, on the same tree, you 
may have summer apples and winter apples, sweet 
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