SEVEN] OUT IN THE ORCHARD 
in the vineyard and in the flower garden. The 
Bartlett pear and the Anjou are marked instances 
in the pear orchard, while among your apples the 
more self-sterile include Astrachan, Ben Davis, 
Fameuse, Gravenstein, Grimes’ Golden, King, 
Rhode Island Greening, Spitzenburg, and Rox- 
bury Russet. Insects are needed, and especially 
honey bees, everywhere to carry the pollen grains 
from one tree to another. It often happens that a 
very rainy May prevents insects from flying, and so 
the apple crop becomes greatly reduced, if not a 
failure. 
I have not forgotten that, in many cases, you 
will be buying an old homestead, and so you will 
come into possession of a few aged and more or 
less derelict fruit trees. One of your first ques- 
tions will be what to do with these. Begin by re- 
moving the dead limbs and every sucker, except 
possibly a few very strong ones that will help to 
make a new head for the tree. In most cases 
these, having grown for several years, will have de- 
vitalized the tree and started decay. You cannot 
make over these old trees, yet you may get some 
service from them while you are growing new ones. 
Young apple trees will come into bearing in four 
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