VARIOUS SPECIES OF FRUITS 



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consider mistakes you may expect fruit. The canopy or Munson 

 method, described on page 139, is almost as simple as neglect! It 

 merely suggests to the vine that better results can be secured by 

 a little judicious control than by natural waywardness. 



No other fruit so richly deserves the small attention necessary to 

 make it bear lavishly. From the earliest historic times only two 

 other fruits, the Date and the Fig, have rivalled it as a wholesome 

 human food, a position it still holds because of its richness in sugar 

 and muscle-forming components as well as its nicely blended acids 



Fig. 97. It is not necessary to have a fancy trellis in order to have plenty of good 

 Grapes. If you can, count the clusters still on the vine ! 



and its aromatic flavors. Still further, no other woody fruit plant, 

 not even the Apple, can be grown in so extensive a territory, upon 

 such a variety of soils, begin to bear so soon and continue for so many 

 years, or supply fresh fruit for so long a season in such a wealth of 

 colors and flavors, or whose surplus can be handled in such a variety 

 of ways. Some variety of Grape will succeed under home conditions 

 in every State of the Union and with adequate protection probably in 

 every Province of Canada. 



