'^ RAISE YOUR OWN FRUIT 229 



give them their right name and make them 

 popular. 



Recent developments certainly do not allow 

 us to view the fruit situation optimistically. 

 Things are going from bad to worse. While 

 not only Luther Burbank, but the other plant 

 breeders, are using their brains to produce 

 superior varieties of fruit, the marketmen, 

 wholesale and retail, far from encouraging 

 them, eliminate even from the varieties now in 

 the markets those that are best. I foresee the 

 time when those of us who want to eat first- 

 class fruits will have to raise them ourselves, 

 like our peas and beans and com and tomatoes. 

 When that time comes (it isn't very far off) 

 those who can afford it can easily add a small 

 orchard to their garden. The best varieties to 

 plant for epicures — that is, for those who know 

 good fruit from mediocre and bad — are named 

 in the orchard chapter of a book to which I 

 have already referred enthusiastically more 

 than once — E. P. Powell's The Country Home, 



THE BEST APPLES 



Although that book was written two decades 

 ago, it is quite up-to-date except in a few 

 details. One of these is important. While 

 recommending, among apples that should grow 

 on every farm and country place, Red Astra- 

 chan, Yellow Transparent, Gravenstein, Mc- 

 intosh, and Spitzenberg, he has nothing to say 



