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CHAPTER V 

 THE PLANTS AND THE PLANTING 



WE now come to the concrete and interesting work 

 of actually making the fruit-plantation. The subjects that 

 one naturally considers when about to begin the planting 

 of a fruit-area fall into five categories the choice of the 

 varieties, the securing of the trees or plants, the actual 

 setting of the stock, the laying out of the area, and the 

 records of the plantation. These matters may now be 

 considered, the two last in the succeeding chapter. 



THE CHOICE OF VARIETIES 



The most personal problem connected with the actual 

 making of a fruit-farm is the choice of varieties. This is 

 the one subject about which most questions are likely to 

 be asked, and also one on which little specific advice can 

 be given in a book. The choice of varieties depends pri- 

 marily on the personal preferences of the grower, the pur- 

 pose for which the fruit is to be grown, and the locality. 

 Without knowing these three elements, it is impossible 

 for any person to give satisfactory direction as to varieties. 

 The grower who has no personal preferences for varieties 

 has not yet mastered the first essential to successful fruit- 

 growing, the setting for himself of a specific ideal. In the 

 greater number of cases one may answer questions on 

 what varieties to plant by asking the questioner what he 

 wants to plant. He will commonly answer his own ques- 

 tion fully. The intelligent question about varieties is that 



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