60 MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY 



" For Paradise trees only the varieties of highest 

 quality should be planted, suitable for box packing. 

 This would include Esopus Spitzenburg, Jonathan, 

 Newtown Pippin, Cox Orange, Mcintosh, Grimes, 

 Chenango, and Fall Strawberry. For the Doucin, 

 a wider variety may be selected, Spy, Baldwin, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Russet, Fall Pippin, 

 Duchess, Wealthy, Twenty Ounce, Astrachan, 

 Bailey Sweet, and other popular kinds, in addition 

 to the list for Paradise trees." 



THE APRICOT 



This fruit is managed in practically the same way 

 as the peach. It is far less appreciated on the farm 

 than it should be, mainly because it is frequently 

 planted in places exposed to the sun, which hastens 

 blooming. Often, in such situations, the blossoms 

 are nipped by early frost and no fruit results. It 

 is desirable, therefore, to plant this fruit on north- 

 ern slopes and places shaded from the early morn- 

 ing sun, so as to retard blossoming. The fruit has 

 a plum-like pit. The foliage is more like the plum 

 than the peach. (See Peach.) 



THE CHERRY 



In recent years the high prices for which cherries 

 have sold have put this very desirable fruit in the 

 list of luxuries. According to George T. Powell of 

 Columbia county, New York, " this applies par- 

 ticularly to sweet cherries. It has been difficult to 

 get orchards of sweet cherries started and estab- 

 lished. There are two kinds of stock used in prop- 

 agating sweet cherries — the Mazzard and the 

 Mahaleb. The Mahaleb works easier, but the tree 



