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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



Editor Better Fruit: 



Upon receipt of the first copy of the December 

 edition of "Better Fruit" I telegraphed you in 

 regard to correcting the error that appeared in 

 my article. While this may be no serious mistake, 

 and could hardly lead anyone astray, it will sound 

 rather ridiculous to some of my horticultural 

 friends, for they realize that fruit buds are never 

 injured by the temperatures which appear in the 

 early part of my article as regarding winter injury 

 to ubds. 



I will admit that the matter may have been 

 stated rather awkwardly in my manuscript, but 

 whoever is responsible for the change in the read- 

 ing of the material surely came a long ways from 

 making it read as I wished it to read. In the 

 manuscript, I believe, the temperatures mentioned 

 were, respectively, -10, —15 and -40. This is quite 

 different from 10, 15 and 40 degrees below 

 freezing. 



When I telegraphed you, I thought it would 

 be possible to mark the error before the mailing 

 list was sent out, but possibly it was too late for 

 this. Of course mistakes will happen, and I hope 

 you will make note of the error in the next 

 issue. — Yours very truly, O. B. Whipple, Horti- 

 culturist, Bozeman. Montana. 



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WHY MAR THE BEAUTY OF THE 

 LANDSCAPE? 



LAST summer the editor of "Better 

 Fruit" made a trip to Niagara Falls 

 to visit the International Apple Shippers' 

 Association. On looking out of the car 

 windows throughout many of the middle 

 West and Eastern states, both sides of 

 the farmers' barns were painted with 

 great big ugly signs advertising one 

 thing or another. Great big signboards 

 dotted the country here and there, add- 

 ing nothing — in fact, detracting much 

 from the beauty of the landscape. The 

 editor is pleased to say that these barn 

 signs are not so general throughout the 

 Northwest, and that big, long signboards 

 are less conspicuous. 



It is not our policy to dictate or to 

 interfere with anybody's business, but 

 sometimes we cannot refrain from sug- 

 gesting things, and I believe that our 

 Civic Improvement Clubs will agree that 

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 well worthy of consideration. 



"Better Fruit" wants to see the home 

 grounds improved with flowers, and the 

 buildings attractively painted, but not 

 disfigured with ugly signs. Let us add 

 to nature if we can, but not mar its 

 beauties. 



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