FRUITS FOR THE HOME GROUNDS 



Every home grounds should have a Peach tree 



and find out what succeeds best with them. Before finally choosing 

 varieties, think twice or thrice, for there is nothing more disturbing 

 in a fruit plantation than varieties one does not want. 



But these generalities do not solve the perennial problem of what 

 to buy. While agents and catalogues may carefully describe varieties, 

 often the merits of novelties and standards are sung in the same key, 

 so that the buyer cannot distinguish between tried and untried sort's. 

 Here are a few simple guiding rules. 



First, decide whether the fruit is to be grown to eat out of hand 

 or for culinary purposes, or both. 



Second, divide varieties to be planted into early, midseason. and 

 late; or summer, autumn, and winter. 



Third, select northern sorts for the North and southern sorts 

 for the South, as all varieties have hmits in latitude, and none will 

 thrive out of its proper latitude. 



Fourth, as each variety of any fruit has a more or less marked 

 preference for a particular soil, so sorts ought to be chosen for soils, 

 so far as information makes possible. 



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