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HOME FRUIT GROWER 



pistillate blossoms are pollinated. Therefore, it is better to grow 

 one's own seedlings, unless the nurseryman can guarantee the sex 

 of each plant. This he can do if the plants have been propagated 

 by any asexual method such as cuttings, budding or grafting, but 

 not if grown from seeds unless the trees have produced fruits. By 

 that time they will have become so large that transplanting will be 

 risky and difficult. Better start with seeds, transplant the seedlings 

 each year or root-prune them to make abundant fibrous roots and 

 select the ones that bear fruits with one male tree to each four or 

 five females. 



PEACH 



It is popularly believed that the 

 Peach is a short lived, tender tree, sub- 

 ject to incurable diseases and relent- 

 less insects and that therefore invest- 

 ments in trees or orchards of this fruit 

 are inferior to outlays in other directions. 

 From the standpoint of the amateur and 

 the family orchard this is highly re- 

 grettable. True, the tree, even with the 

 best of care, rarely reaches the old age 

 of the Sweet Cherry, the Apple or the 

 Pear, but I know commercial orchards 

 which have been productive and profit- 

 able for more than 25 years. Why may 

 not the home orchard perform as well ? 

 The fact that seedling trees are 

 common in back yards and fence rows 

 indicates that the Peach will thrive al- 

 most anywhere and that named varieties 

 of superior excellence should be given 

 preference, as they will doubtless give 

 far greater satisfaction. Unquestionably 

 the Peach, when of such varieties and 

 well grown, is the most delicious tem- 

 perate climate fruit. Next to the Apple it has the widest variety 

 of uses. Just look! Dessert, canning, preserving, jelly, syrup, wine, 

 vinegar, butter, marmalade, pickles, short-cake, layer-cake, pie, 

 cobbler, fritters, dumplings, meringue, sherbet, and, if you live in a 

 wet State well, don't you wish you had a tree for each of these 

 purposes ? 



While trees of some varieties are too tender to be grown in the 



