38 FRUIT-GROWING 



if it had been introduced by a firm with the 

 courage and cash to give it the proper send- 

 off — provided it had been given a name that 

 was more suited to a fruit. 



Take time to decide the question of what 

 varieties you are to plant. It is a big question. 

 If you want the fruit for your own use, plant 

 what you like. If you expect to sell it, plant 

 what you can grow, provided always that there 

 is a market for it. One can always grow Ben 

 Davis but when it comes to selling them "that 

 is something else again." Study the nursery 

 catalogues. You will have a lot of fun out of 

 it at least. Next, see what varieties are grown 

 successfully in the neighborhood of your or- 

 chard location. Then find out if your markets 

 can dispose of such varieties at a profit. In 

 other words make a study of the whole game 

 before you buy your trees. And be sure of two 

 things: first, that you can produce apples of 

 the particular variety you are planting; and, 

 second, that you can sell them after you have 

 them in the barrels. If you will just pay at- 

 tention to these two points it will save you a 

 lot of worry in the years that we are coming 

 to — when that young orchard of yours begins 

 to bear. 



