CHAPTER II 



FRUIT-GARDEN FORETHOUGHT 



A fruit-garden is a permanent improvement. Its span of life 

 is as long or longer than that of the person who plants it. An addi- 

 tion so enduring must be planned. Unless there 

 There is _ ^g forethought, maturing in a plan, all future 



^Plin™ ^ efforts may fail. Besides, there is much pleasure in 



anticipating and planning; it makes the garden 

 one's very own, lifting it from the commonplace of "ready-made" 

 articles by which one is often surrounded. 



About the first thing to decide is the size. Let it 

 The Size be as large as circumstances will permit, remember- 



ing that a small plantation properly planned, well 

 planted, and kept at all times with a fine finish, is better than a 

 larger plantation poorly laid out and badly cared for, and the returns 

 will prove the wisdom of this decision. 



In home plantations one must plant the ground he 



SoU.^*'°'^ ^^®- ^ ™^° ^'^^° S''°'"'* ^'"'^'^^ ^°'' *^^ market must 



select his location with- the greatest care, since he 



must grow fruit at the lowest cost to meet competition; but for the 



home garden the planter must select particular fruits for the ground 



llijw'ijr.s and fruit coiiibinc to make thi:^ a sclf-yupporting garden 



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