Part Three — Fruits and Berries 



Chapter XVi 



THE VARIETIES OF POME AND STONE FRUITS 



MANY a home gardener who has succeeded 

 well with vegetables is, for some reason 

 or other, still fearsome about trying his 

 hand at growing his own fruit. 



This is all a mistake; the initial expense is very 

 slight (fruit trees will cost but twenty-five to forty 

 cents each, and the berry bushes only about four 

 cents each), and the same amount of care that is 

 demanded by vegetables, if given to fruit, will pro- 

 duce apples, peaches, pears and berries far superior 

 to any that can be bought, especially in flavor. 



I know a doctor in New York, a specialist, who 

 has attained prominence in his profession, and who 

 makes a large income ; he tells me that there is noth- 

 ing in the city that hurts him so much as to have 

 to pay out a nickel whenever he wants an apple. 

 His boyhood home was on a Pennsylvania farm, 

 where apples were as free as water, and he cannot 

 get over the idea of their being one of Nature's 

 gracious gifts, any more than he can overcome his 



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