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SUCCESS IN FRUIT CULTURE 



desired, it is best to write to the Experiment Station direct, 

 and we can then recommend the books or bulletins best treat- 

 ing the case in question. 



If any one has varieties of fruits such as apples, the names 

 of which they do not know, send a few specimens to the Ex- 

 periment Station, and see if they can be identified. The hor- 

 ticultural class in fruit growing here at the college had over 

 one hundred varieties of apples for study the present season. 

 Sometimes varieties are wrongly named also. 



Above all, let us set out enough fruit trees for our family 

 use, if for no other purpose, and take a little pride in having 

 a variety of them. Our farm homes are what we make them, 

 and if we do not have plenty of fruits it is our own fault. 



In making the following list we realize that there are many 

 splendid varieties that ripen at the same time as those listed, 

 and compete with them closely. We have selected the lists 

 with the idea of season and market as well as home consump- 

 tion, and limited the varieties to as few as we could and at the 

 same time meet all requirements. In strictly commercial or- 

 chards we should recommend that the list be reduced to a very 



few varieties, not 

 using more than 

 from one to three 

 varieties fro m 

 each list. The 

 mistake of select- 

 ing too many va- 

 rieties is a com- 

 mon one. For 

 family use a few 

 trees of apples, 

 for example, can 

 be grafted with 

 as many varieties as one cares for, thus allowing the remain- 

 ing trees of the orchard to be alike. 



Fig. io. — Niagara Plums. 



THE APPLE 



Our list of apples for general recommendation is the' fol- 

 lowing, named in order of importance: 



