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BEITER FRUIT 



SOME METHODS OF GROWING FRUIT 



From the Oregon Journal 



IN FRANCE 



Now has come the season of the 

 year when week-end visitors hear 

 nothing but discussions of the state of 

 the garden at the homes of their amateur 

 farmer friends. The only questions of 

 importance are whether "our corn" will 

 be good, or ''our raspberries" as fine as 

 last year. 



According to the impression obtained 

 by week-end visitors people sit up nights 

 with their potato crop and cannot sleep 

 for anxiety over the tomatoes. There is 

 no doubt about it that American amateur 

 farmers take their rural avocations very 

 seriously. When a Frenchman fell to 

 discussing the other day what he had 

 seen on his trips about the countrj^ hovv- 



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ever, he expressed amazement at the lack 

 of attention to detail. 



"In this country," he said, "you just 

 put things in the ground and let them 

 grow more or less haphazard, as far as 

 I can see. You have a soil so fertile that 

 I suppose you can dispense with much 

 that is necessary in our old country. But 

 all the same I think the fruit might be 

 benefited if you did some of the things 

 that every French grower does. France 

 is the country of detail, you know, and 

 we think it pays in fruit growing just as 

 it does in cooking. 



"The fruits we pet and pamper most 

 are the peach and grape. The majority 

 of peaches grown in this country would 

 seem, to a Frenchman, to be distinctlj' 

 of the second order, that is, in the lan- 

 guage of his fruit culture, a peach 'de 

 plein vent,' or one grown on trees in an 

 orchard. Between peaches grown thus, 

 'open to the wind,' and those trained on 

 trellises against walls the French make 

 a sharp distinction. 



"The trellis, of 'espalier.' peaches are 

 the only ones that appear on a carefully 

 regulated table, and are universally cul- 

 tivated. They always command a much 

 higher price than the tree peach, and at 

 Montreuil the fruit has been brought to 

 such perfection that they habitually sell 

 for from forty to eighty cents apiece. 



"Even more elaborate is the procedure 

 with fine table grapes. Hothouse grapes 



April 



are not highly in favor among French 

 epicures, for they are held to lack the 

 rich flavor of the fruit grown in the 

 open. At the same time the grape is so 

 much in demand as a table delicacy that 

 it is desirable that their season should 

 be prolonged as far as possible into the 

 winter. The difficulty of this situation 

 has been met by a system which, com- 

 plicated as it is, is quite generally in use. 



"The grapes are grown on trellises 

 exposed to the sun and six or seven 

 yards apart, like the peaches. When the 

 clusters are ripe they are put with the 

 stem and leaves in a sort of glass box 

 or bottle, which is placed in a dark 

 room. If the producer is growing for 



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 producer while you live, the best real estate 

 agent you ever had when you are ready to 

 sell, and a valuable asset to leave to your 

 widow and orphans when you have reached 

 the end of life's journey. 



If an old reliable nursery is of any specific 

 importance to the prospective planter, we 

 kindly ask you to consider with us before 

 buying your trees. 



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