FRUIT GROWING 45 
in the North in recent years, and many good varieties are 
now produced. The trees are planted, cultivated, and cared 
for in accordance with the best practice followed in growing 
other trees. No special directions need to be given. In 
pruning we aim to develop a low-headed tree, rather than 
a tall one, and we thin out small branches to give the head 
a free, open growth. 
The following are among the varieties that have proven 
most hardy in North Dakota: Duchess of Oldenburg, Oka- 
bena, Patten’s Greening, Hibernal, Wealthy, Anisim Iowa 
Beauty, Whitney No. 20, Hyslop Crab, Florence, and Early 
Strawberry. 
QUESTIONS AND PROJECTS 
1. Fruit produced. — What varieties of apples are grown in your 
region? Of plums? Cherry-plums? Strawberries? Raspberries? 
Currants? Gooseberries? Are any grapes or cherries grown? If so, 
what varieties? 
2. Their characteristics. — What are the merits and the faults of 
each variety reported in reply to the preceding questions ? 
3. Difficulties in raising fruit. — What particular difficulties do you 
have to contend with in your region in raising each of the different kinds 
of fruit mentioned in this chapter? 
4. Experience with strawberries. — Find somebody who raises straw- 
berries and get a full account from him, — where he got his plants, what 
variety, when and how he set them out, later cultivation and other care, 
amount and value of the crop, when and how he starts new beds, etc. 
Give a good report to your class. 
5. Experience with raspberries. — If possible, follow the same plan 
with raspberries as suggested for strawberries in the preceding para- 
graph. 
6. A patch of your own. — Plant and care for a patch of strawberries 
or raspberries. 
4. Fruit trees of your own.— Persuade your parents to let you plant 
several different kinds of fruit trees and to let you have them for your 
