; # FRUIT DEPARTMENT 



You want to grow your own, and all you can grow, 

 mS^r-r-^X all you need for home use and some to give away. You 

 have gotten over the old idea that it is proper to buy 

 fruit because it is not, and secondly, because fruit is not 

 to be bought in continuing supply. You have gotten over 

 being afraid of work. Keep the ground stirred two inches deep, 

 by hoe, rake, horse cultivator, or by one of the small tractors, as the 

 j Sprywheel. Autumn is the time to get started. Do what you can 



in the Autumn and then the plants make a quick get-away in the 

 Spring. Keep planting in December even if it is chilly, wet and 

 oljscouraglBigL The Apples, Pears, Quinces, Grapes, Rhubarb and many others don't 

 %iind it. Toyjet what fruit you should have you have got to push. There is not 

 a surplus in the country to allow nurserymen to push for your orders. 



Take an inventory of your area. Make a map of it to scale. Don't think Apple 

 trees have to be 40 ft. apart as in grandfather's orchard. You can keep them cut back. 

 You can give a standard Apple 20 ft., dwarf Apples can be planted 12 ft. apart. The 

 advantages of the dwarf fruit over the standard Apple are slight. 



Standard Pears can have 15 ft. and dwarf Pears 10 ft., Peaches and Plums 15 ft., 

 Currants, Gooseberries 4x6 ft., Raspberries, Blackberries 2x4 ft.; 50% more space is 

 preferable, especially if you give horse cultivation. 



Outside the garden and orchard see where you can take out a shrub and put in a 

 fruit tree. Sour Cherry is a little round tree just as pretty as the Spirsea. Apples and 



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