A WELL CARED FOR ORCHARD, WHERE CLEAN CULTURE HAS 



BEEN PRACTICED 



Courtesy W. E. Rumsey 



CHAPTER XI. 



CARE AND CULTIVATION. 



**Over and over again, 

 No matter which way I turn, 

 I always find in the Book of Life 

 \ Some Lesson I have to learn.'' 



This is a subject the importance of which the 

 beginner can scarcely realize. It is also diffi- 

 cult for the orchardist of experience to even 

 intimate its importance. There are so many 

 varied conditions which will come up for con- 

 sideration, things upon which so much depends 

 that after all that has been read and written and 

 all that years of experience may have impressed 

 on the grower, even then, all that we may say 

 will only be offered as a few kindly suggestions. 

 Hoping that they may cause some to think for 

 themselves and thus help them to solve their 



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