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and the brick wall against which they grow takes up large 

 quantities of heat which it gives out to the fruit all through the 

 night so that they just grow clay and night. They work them 

 there twenty-four hours a day. 



We have in this picture the explanation of why they can 

 take so much care of their fruit trees. The work is largely 

 done by women. The major portion of their hard work is 

 ddne by the women. It is a countr}^ where they have genuine 

 women's rights. These girls, about twenty-two years old, 

 work ten hours a day and receive forty-eight cents a day 

 throughout the summer. From the enormous savings which 

 they amass during the nine months of the growing season they 

 go home and live with their parents and support the family for 

 the rest of the year. Every house has a few fruit trees — not 

 an orchard scattered out behind the barn as we have it in New 

 England, but usually a few fruit trees trained up against the 

 side of the house. 



This is more of a business orchard which you see here. 

 This is composed of cordon apple trees, each one trained 

 obliquely to a stake and the stakes tied to a trellis. This is a 

 business proposition and the man who runs that makes money 

 out of it. He gets good prices for his fruit, and he puts lots 

 of work into it so he has to get good prices. 



Here we have a little inclosed garden such as we find in all 

 private estates. This is on a large private estate, where a 

 number of gardeners are kept. For comparison we have here 

 the little peasant's cottage in the little town where my mother 

 was born, and very near her old home — a pear tree growing 

 against the end of the house and a grape vine growing under 

 the eaves. The amount of land these people have is extremely 

 limited. Between the house and the front fence is about two 

 and a half feet, but they manage that land to pretty good 

 advantage and get something from it. 



Here in the middle of a little village in Silesia we have a 

 garden running along between the sidewalk and the grocery 

 store; growing against the side of the house an apricot tree 

 ■which bears abundant crops of fruit. 



This is an orchard of fruit trees on a private place in one 

 of the suburbs of Berlin. It was photographed early in the 

 spring. The trees have been whitewashed which gives them 



