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MAKING A COUNTRY HOME 
By E. P. Powell 
Ill. FRUITS FOR THE SMALL 
HOME ORCHARD 
PROMISED you an article on fruits for 
a small country home—such as any one 
going out from the city needs to create. 
I propose to suggest only those fruits that are 
most important in making a simple home 
delightful and healthful. I shall make my 
list to include varieties that I have myself 
tested for the most part, and to include very 
little that will require unusual knowledge 
or care. It is very desirable in these days to 
get lists of fruits that are not peculiarly sub- 
ject to fungus diseases and to insect attacks. 
It is possible to plant a country home with 
sorts that will not survive under ordinary 
care, or give satisfactory results. I have seen 
one or two homesteads undertaken where the 
pears were those specially subject to blight, 
the apples those most surely assailed by in- 
sects, and so through the whole list. I will 
try to make my advice to plant cover only 
those things which my experience has taught 
me will be the least subject to our enemies. 
The most popular fruit just now, and the 
one undergoing most evolution, is the plum; 
and I shall find it quite difficult to confine 
myself to a list of half a dozen. I think my 
best plan will be to give you six of the 
old European sorts, and then six of the 
products of Mr. Burbank’s enterprise and 
skill. (1) At the head of the list should 
stand the old Green Gage, even yet the high- 
est flavored of all plums. ‘The tree is long 
lived, and bears immense crops, but it should 
stand out open to the sun in order to get per- 
fect flavor. (2) For huge crops of really 
good cooking plums, also fairly good for 
dessert, the Lombard, or Bleecker, should 
stand second. ‘The tree, however, is an irreg- 
ular grower, subject to the black knot and 
suckers badly. I would not give it this rank 
only that it will grow anywhere and every- 
where, and do its best in city back yards 
where it is pinched for room. (3) For superb 
growth and superb looking fruit the Pond 
might fairly take third rank. ‘The tree is 
very healthy and stout and might be grown 
for its own sake. (4) Coes Goldendrop, for 
everybody’s growing, can fairly take this place; 
only here we have once more a tree that 
suckers badly and is short lived. In all such 
cases you must keep on planting the suckers 
to make new trees—provided you have them 
cn their own roots. (5) Reine Claude is 
a plum somewhat resembling Green Gage, | 
but very much later and one of the most pro- 
ductive of all plums. ‘The tree overbears, and 
it can not be said to be long lived. (6) Grand 
Duke must be the last in this list, and ripens 
late in September. I have left out Monarch, 
Archduke and Peter’s Yellow Gage, which I 
wish very much you may find room for. 
Now for these new Japanese plums, take 
(1) Shiro, a strong, early ripening ‘variety 
giving you a load of light yellow plums, al- 
most transparent and very good. (2) Bur- 
bank, one of the most astonishing affairs in 
the fruit world for the quantity it can bear. 
The tree is hardy and sprawls badly. I am 
not sure but that you had better take America 
or Abundance instead of Burbank. If not, 
take as (3) and (4) these two plums. Re- 
member, however, that both of them must be 
picked as soon as they begin to color. Ripened 
on the tree they are nearly worthless. If 
ripened in a dark cool room the flavor be- 
comes delicious and the fruit is not quick to 
decay. For (5) I should take Sultan. For 
eating, this plum, in my judgment, is the 
best of all that Mr. Burbank has produced. 
The flesh is dark red in color, and sufficiently 
