Bush Fruit Production 



THE GARDENER AND HIS GARDEN 



The plant is the open book of the true 

 horticulturist. Plant characteristics dictate 

 cultural requirements and plant reactions gov- 

 ern the details of practice. The gardener or 

 farmer who would become a skilled grower 

 of plants must learn to pass beyond the 

 printed word to the plant itself for the final 

 settlement of cultural problems. 



He must learn to read the answers to his 

 questions in leaf and spur and branch and 

 flower, and he must develop a sense of fine 

 discrimination which will enable him to adjust 

 cultivation and fertilization, pruning and 

 spraying, more and more closely to the needs 

 of the individual plant. 



Books are useful and necessary. They con- 

 tain the summarized experiences of thousands 

 of plant manipulators who have gone before, 

 but the rules and formulae which they set forth 



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