BUSH FRUIT PRODUCTION 



are; at best, but rough approximations. They 

 may be true on the average but they seldom 

 fit exactly the particular conditions with which 

 the farmer and gardener must deal. 



Language cannot convey a true understand- 

 ing. That can come only from experience and 

 observation and comparison, until gradually 

 there develops a sense of relative values, a 

 comprehension of the meaning of subtle 

 changes ^hich follow our attempts to bend 

 the plant to our purposes. 



Study the plant! Learn to know it at its 

 best, then learn to recognize the signs of 

 trouble, especially those delicate but apparent 

 growth and color changes which indicate a low 

 or poorly balanced food supply, for malnutri- 

 tion is the worst foe of cultivated plants. 



Understanding can never be complete. 

 Human senses are too limited and plant re- 

 actions too intimate and subtle for that, but 

 the degree of mastery marks the difference 

 between the "plant wizard" and the man who 

 has no "luck" at all with plants. 



Growth and Fruitfulness 



A clean strong growth is the first essential 

 of heavy cropping. More growers of plants 

 fail at this point than at any other, and two 



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