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SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE 



able to hold their own except for its greater perfection. 

 Large estates, with their numerous gardens and green- 

 houses, may add a fruit house, a cold or hot grapery, 

 or force strawberries in any cool house, at little expense, 

 with a great deal of satisfaction. So, too, the owner 

 of a city home with but a few rods of land may have, 

 if he can. afford the expense, even choicer fruit than 



Fig. 109— Straight Sash Bar Lean-to House 



can be grown by the farmer, and so control conditions 

 as to have it through a much wider range of season. 

 This expense, however, need not be great after the houses 

 are built, and these may be simple and inexpensive 

 structures built against the house or stable, or may be 

 very elaborate and ornate, built by skillful greenhouse 

 architects. 



As with fruits out of doors the grower must be 

 familiar with the needs of each crop — and they need 

 practically the same conditions under glass that they 



