CHAPTER IX. 



PLANT A SUCCESSION OF FRUITS AT ONCE. 



The man who settles on a new place, waits a few years 

 to get ready to set out an orchard, and finally plants 



Fig. 56. 



nothing but a few peach and apple trees, with the inten- 

 tion of waiting a few years to see how these do before 

 planting more, will not eat much fruit from his own 

 orchard in a long time. Do not wait till next year, nor 

 the year after, to begin ; go to work at once and set out 

 trees and plants of every kind of fruit that succeeds in 

 your climate. A few apple and peach trees are not suffi- 

 cient. Plant the small fruits, strawberries, raspberries 

 and grapes, also currants and gooseberries wherever they 



