CHAPTER II 



SELECTING THE TREES 

 "Every tree iB known by hia own fruit." — Luke, VI: 44. 



An orchard consists of a tract of land planted 

 with fruit trees of some definite kind. Trees 

 and "dirt" are the two component parts on 

 which the whole thing is based. A failure in 

 the selection of either means that the founda- 

 tion of the entire structure is weak and the ul- 

 timate results are quite liable to fall short of 

 what the planter had in mind. 



In my first chapter I tried to give a few sug- 

 gestions regarding the selection of the land 

 for the orchard. The problem of selecting 

 trees is just as important and much more com- 

 plicated than that of selecting the location* 

 Moreover it is one that the beginner will have 

 greater difficulty in mastering. 



Too many new orchard planters fail to real- 

 ize that in selecting their trees they may make 

 an almost fatal error. They do not understand 

 that fruit trees vary in quality just as much as 

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