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ate" mentioned in the table comprise the 

 following territory: The Northern Belt 

 should include all the New England states 

 and Eastern Canada, Northern New York, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, etc. The Middle 

 Belt should 

 include South- 

 ern New York, 

 Northern New 

 Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, In- 

 diana, Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Tenn- 

 essee, West Vir- 

 ginia, etc. . The 

 Southern Belt 

 should include 

 Southern New 

 Jersey, Dela- 

 ware, Virginia, 

 and states to the 

 south. 



You will note 

 that in the table 

 the varieties for 

 each climatic belt 

 are divided, ac- 

 cording to their 

 ripening season, 

 into six groups. 

 Use of the table 



becomes extremely easy and effective if you 

 choose from each of these groups for your 

 belt one variety or more, as you wish, and 

 get one or more trees of each variety 

 selected, until you have the number of 

 trees you require. This should give you 

 apples of the type you prefer from June 

 until June comes again. 



Whether you 

 should plant 

 dwarf or stand- 

 ard trees depends 

 on the size of 

 your garden and 

 on how well you 

 will care for your 

 little orchard. 

 Standard trees at 

 five to eight years 

 old are as big as 

 dwarf trees ever 

 get, while ten 

 to fifteen year- 

 old standard 

 trees of most var- 

 ieties will occupy 

 more than eigh- 

 teen feet square 

 of space each. 

 Dwarf trees, 

 while seldom get- 

 ting larger than 

 eight to ten feet 

 in diameter 



through the heads, require twice as much 

 pruning as standards, and this pruning 

 must be done just right and at the proper 

 time or your dwarf trees will be failures. 

 The question is one for you to decide, on 

 these two features. The quantity and 

 quality of fruit produced will be about 



the same with either dwarf or standard trees 

 except that the dwarfs probably will bear 

 more during the first five years. 



In any case big, healthy, one-year old 

 trees nearly always are best to plant. They 



Northern Spy, one of the most popular of all apples in the Northern Climatic Belt. 



brisk, subacid flavor 



begin to produce just as soon as older trees, 

 and then you have the opportunity with 

 one-year trees to shape the heads just as 

 you want them to be. Buy direct from 

 responsible growers of trees, either by per- 

 sonal visit to the nurseries or by mail. At 

 least two varieties are necessary on account 

 of the need of cross-pollination; and trees 



fact that you want to grow berries or 

 vegetables between the trees. You cannot 

 find a better place than under the trees 

 for the gooseberries. The north side of the 

 garden usually is better for trees because 



there they will 

 not shade smaller 

 fruit set to the 

 south. Prepare 

 your garden 

 ground by very 

 deep plowing or 

 spading, and by 

 dynamiting. The 

 ground should be 

 dynamited by 

 using a quarter 

 of a pound placed 

 two to four feet 

 deep where each 

 tree is to stand, 

 at least, and it 

 will pay you well 

 to dynamite the 

 entire garden in 

 the same manner. 

 When you plant, 

 see that all brok- 

 en roots of the 

 trees are trimmed 

 off smoothly, 

 face down. The 

 dipped in mud. 



Grows well on clay. Has a 



Tolman Sweet for the Middle Climatic Belt. A good all round apple that does well on any soil. 



and suitable for any situation 



of the different sorts should stand no more 

 than a hundred and fifty feet apart. 



In your garden arrange your trees with 

 reference to convenience and to economy 

 of space. Set the "fillers" where you 

 want gaps to be when the time comes to 

 thin your orchard, and don't overlook the 



with a slanting cut 

 roots then should be 

 Application of the usual methods of spray- 

 ing trees practiced by orchardists will 

 prevent and overcome all disease and insect 

 troubles. These methods may be used as 

 well in the garden as in the orchard, if 

 you start the work, as is done in successful 

 orchards, as soon 

 as the trees are 

 planted. The 

 usual methods of 

 pruning, c u It i - 

 vating and feed- 

 ing trees will 

 make your trees 

 surely and faith- 

 fully yield you 

 heavy crops of 

 flawless fruit, and 

 a fruit garden in 

 which you may 

 have unbounded 

 profit and satis- 4 

 faction and pride. 

 The prime 

 needs of trees, 

 especially of baby 

 trees, are unres- 

 tricted root space, 

 sufficient water 

 and plentiful 

 plant food. Root 

 space can't be 

 provided merely by setting a tree off some 

 distance from other trees, and there are 

 better ways of supplying water and food 

 than with a hose and with fertilizer. 

 Trees starve in "tight" ground. It is the 

 physical and the chemical conditions of the 

 soil that must be managed. 



Sweet flavor 



