THE PATRIOTIC GARDEN 



FOOD FOB THE KITCHEN DOOR 



He also Fights who fc Helps a Fighter Fight 



Planning to Set Out Fruit Trees u. g. kains 



WHO does not love the orchard 

 at Grandpa's — that "murmurous 

 home of innumerable wings" in 

 bloomingMay; that spicy, browsing 

 place "looking lazy with neglected plenty" — 

 when lavish autumn spreads his gold and gar- 

 net store! How many happy memories play 

 hide and seek among the sunflecked shadows 

 of the grand old trees! Oh, to have just such 

 an orchard now! Why not? 



"There isn't room," you say? Perhaps not 

 for an orchard of as many trees and scattered 

 about in the same way as at Grandpa's, but — 

 Is that the\only way? I think not. A smaller 

 family plantation than that recommended by 

 Thomas, author of "The American Fruit 

 Culturist," will surely satisfy one's longing — 

 he would have a plantation including ioo 

 currant, 200 raspberry, 100 blackberry, 25 

 gooseberry bushes, 40 or 50 grape vines, 5 or 

 6 apricot, 10 to 20 plum, 40 or 50 peach, 20 to 

 30 pear, as many summer and fall apples 

 and 25 to 50 winter apple trees. A. farm, not a 

 garden! 



How Large a Home Orchard ? 



V\7"HY, there's potentially enough fruit 

 ^* there to inundate a growing village! Just 

 look! A moderate yield of mature currant 

 and gooseberry bushes is five quarts to the 

 bush; of blackberries two to four quarts; of 

 raspberries one to three; of peach, plum, and 

 apricot trees five to ten bushels; of pears 20 to 

 30 bushels; of apples 25 to 40 bushels. Even 

 supposing that Mr. Thomas's family could 

 use the 500 quarts of currants, the 200 

 to 500 bushels of peaches and plums, the 

 400 to 900 bushels of pears and the 600 to 

 2,000 bushels of apples that his plantation 

 should bear, do you think your family needs 

 that much? 



The best way to determine how many plants 

 may be needed isto consider the appetites of 

 the family and to use the average yield 

 figures just given, remembering that some- 

 times a tree or a bush may produce little or 

 nothing and sometimes maximum yields. The 

 highest yield of currants that I know of is 10 

 quarts to the bush; that of apples 27 barrels — 

 more than 80 bushels — to the tree! Such yields, 

 however, are exceptional. 



Home vs. Commercial Ideals 



TN ORDER to avoid being struck aghast 

 ■*• by even the average quantities just 

 mentioned remember that all the fruit does 

 not ripen at once. Varieties known to the 

 commercial fruit grower as "croppers," those 

 that yield allopathic doses, or nothing, are far 

 less desirable for the family orchard than are 

 those which yield on the homeopathic and 



continuous performance principles during a 

 period of several weeks or even months. 

 Indeed, it may be stated as a bald axiom 

 that the commercial and the family orchard 



interests and standards are diametrically 

 opposed. 



When a commercial grower 

 variety he usually determines 



chooses a 

 beforehand 



Isn't a fruit tree just as decorative as you can wish? Not alone in flower, but equally when in golden fruit. Apples, 



pears, plums, cherries, and peaches may be used 



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