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Good-looking Apples, Pears, Peaches, and other fruits will always find 

 a more ready market than varieties that are less attractive in appear- 

 ance. In growing for culinary purposes, cultivators should be careful 

 to get the most suitable varieties, as some are greatly superior to others. 

 For canning and drying special qualities are also essential, and as a rule 

 the finest dessert varieties are quite unsuitable for these purposes. In 

 planting Grapes for wine, the grower should take particular care ~to 

 select varieties that are likely to yield satisfactory results, as some are 

 much better adapted to particular localities than others. The writer 

 also specially advises cultivators, no matter what their purposes may be, 

 not to plant many varieties of any kind of fruit. This is a mistake that 

 many have made to their detriment. More satisfaction will be obtained 

 from ten or even fewer varieties of Apples or Pears than a hundred, 

 and the same remark will apply to all other fruits. Whether for dessert, 

 culinary purposes, drying, canning, or wine-making, the grower will be 

 in a better position if he has large quantities of a few kinds rather than 

 small lots of many varieties. If a grower has say a ton of any particular 

 variety, he will be more likely to find a ready and good market for it 

 than he would for the same bulk made up with twenty different sorts. 

 With tender-fleshed fruits, such as Peaches, Cherries, Plums, Grapes, 

 Strawberries, &c., cultivators must also take into consideration the 

 suitability of particular varieties for packing and carrying, as some are 

 much better adapted to these purposes than others. 



PLANTING. 



Season for Planting. There is some difference of opinion among 

 cultivators as to the most favourable times for planting, and too many 

 are content to follow the practice of others without giving the subject 

 much consideration. Many suppose that if the trees are planted at any 

 time between the autumn and early spring that is all that is necessary. 

 Others favour planting early in the winter, and some prefer to wait till 

 the spring is close at hand. According to the experience of the writer, 

 the most favourable time for planting deciduous trees is towards the end 

 of the winter. When planted earlier, and more especially in the months 

 of June and July, when the soil is cold and wet, the trees often suffer 

 materially from their inactive roots being soddened. They have to 

 remain in this condition for some time before their roots are fully active, 

 and if they have escaped injury they have made no headway, and might 

 just as well have remained in the nursery beds. On the other hand, if 

 planted later in the season root action commences at once, and the trees 

 quickly recover from the shock caused by removal. Late planted trees 

 will necessarily be just as far advanced as those put in early in the 

 winter, and there will be less risk of their being injured. Oranges, 

 Lemons, and other evergreens should, when practicable, be transplanted 

 late in the summer, or very early in the autumn. The ground is then 

 warm, root action commences at once, and the plants get fairly estab- 

 lished before the cold weather sets in. It must be remembered, 



