seven] out in the orchard 



in the vineyard and in the flower garden. The 

 Bartlett pear and the Anjou are marked instances 

 in the pear orchard, while among your apples the 

 more self-sterile include Astrachan, Ben Davis, 

 Fameuse, Gravenstein, Grimes' Golden, King, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Spitzenburg, and Rox- 

 bury Russet. Insects are needed, and especially 

 honey bees, everywhere to carry the pollen grains 

 from one tree to another. It often happens that a 

 very rainy May prevents insects from flying, and so 

 the apple crop becomes greatly reduced, if not a 

 failure. 



I have not forgotten that, in many cases, you 

 will be buying an old homestead, and so you will 

 come into possession of a few aged and more or 

 less derelict fruit trees. One of your flrst ques- 

 tions will be what to do with these. Begin by re- 

 moving the dead limbs and every sucker, except 

 possibly a few very strong ones that will help to 

 make a new head for the tree. In most cases 

 these, having grown for several years, will have de- 

 vitalized the tree and started decay. You cannot 

 make over these old trees, yet you may get some 

 service from them while you are growing new ones. 

 Young apple trees will come into bearing in four 



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