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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



It makes a difference when a young 

 man is planting an orchard for commer- 

 cial purposes on which he expects to de- 

 pend in the future for his living, and 

 for a competence in old age, whether that 

 orchard has to be renewed every quarter 

 of a century, or whether it will live a 

 hundred years. 



L. V. McWhorter, a writer of Indian 

 history, says: 



"Klickitat Peter is about 80 years old; 

 bought those trees on White Salmon at 

 $2.50 per dozen, planted them 35 years 

 ago. Planted 1877." 



It makes a difference in the choice of 

 a location whether a man feels that if he 

 plants an orchard he can gather fruit 

 when he is old and that it will provide 

 for his comfort, and that his children and 



grandchildren may gather fruit from the 

 same orchard. 



Now let us study the age of this or- 

 chard by comparison, for it is by com- 

 parisons that we often get more correct 

 views. We have here an orchard that 

 was planted by Klickitat Peter in 1877. 

 It was planted under conditions where 

 there was sufficient moisture and soil 

 substance to furnish it food; it was 

 planted on land where there was seepage 

 from the higher lands above and beyond, 

 and where the roots of the trees could 

 get sufficient moisture. Because of this 

 natural seepage or sub-irrigation there 

 had been growing for centuries, perhaps, 

 considerable crops of grass each year that 

 rotted on the surface of the land and fur- 

 nished sufficient humus. While it is true 



Pig. S. Wife of Klickitat Peter and One of His Old Apple Ti-ees. 



