FRUITS FOR THE 

 HOME GROUNDS 



PREPARED BY 



U. P. HEDRICK 



Horticulturist, New Yorli Agricultural Experiment Station 

 FOR THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 



' CONTENTS 



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3TIFICATION OF THE FeUIT-GaRDEN 5 



ay-value of Fruits from America's Fruit-gardens, 5 — Fruits a 

 ssity of Healthful Living, 5 — Orchards as Ornamentals, G — Sir 

 _• Newton a Wise Man, 6— A Fruit -garden is a Moral Agent, 6 — 

 cational Value of a Fruit-garden, 7. 



^2-tiinKN_ Forethought 8 



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FEW words are needed to tell of the value of fruit as a 

 food, or to commend the delights of that food when 

 freshly plucked from nearby trees or plants. The tre- 

 mendous increase in the use of fruits in America — we are the 

 fruit-eaters of the world! — makes evident their importance. 

 However, there is a mistaken impression that it is impos- 

 sible to raise these delicious fruits on the small home grounds. 

 It is to make plain the truth that even a little back yard may 

 provide room for the trees and plants that will bring fruit- 

 blessings to the home that this pamphlet has been written for 

 the American Association of Nurserymen. 



PWT" Making America More Fruitful and More Beautiful. A number of the 

 leading nurserymen of the country, realizing that success with fruit trees, shrubs, 

 and flowers depends wholly upon adequate knowledge as to their care on the 

 part of the planter, have cooperated in a campaign to make success for every- 

 one who plants as certain as it is humanly possible to make it. Therefore the 

 Nurserymen's National Service Bureau is glad to endorse the Fruit Book. 



tCopyright, 1919. bv I- Horace McFarland Company. All rights reserved as to contents, 

 illustrations and translation into any other language) 



