336 FRUIT GROWING 



QUESTIONS 



1. Give directions for starting the young orchard. 



2. Enumerate a number of things to be remembered while pruning. 



3. Give reasons for growing a culture crop between orchard rows. Mention 



some good crops for this. 



4. Make a collection of varieties of apples suited to your region. 



5. Give reasons for careful picking of fruit. 



6. Say what you can regarding the stage of picking for different classes of 



market. 



7. Give reasons for grading fruit for market. 



8. What are the three types of plums. 



9. Mention bad diseases of the apple orchard. 



10. What is the worst disease in the peach orchard? Give its control. 



References. United States Farmers' Bulletins: 104, Notes on Frost; 

 113, The Apple and How to Grow It; 181, Pruning; 404, Irrigation of Or- 

 chards; 482, The Pear and How to Grow It; 491, The Small Apple Orchard 

 on the General Farm; 538, Sites, Soils and Varieties for Citrus Groves in the 

 Gulf States; 539, Propagation of Citrus Trees; 542, Culture, Fertilization 

 and Frost Protection of Citrus Groves; 631, 632, 633, Growing Peaches; 

 685, The Native Persimmon; 727, Growing Fruit for Home Use in the 

 Great Plains Area. 



Productive Orcharding, Sears, Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. Systematic 

 Pomology, Waugh, Orange Judd Co., N. Y. Manual of Fruit Growing, Bailey, 

 The Macmillan Co., N. Y. The American Peach Orchard, Waugh, Orange 

 Judd Co., N. Y. Fruit Harvesting. Storing, and Marketing, Waugh, Orange 

 Judd Co., N. Y. 



