disease, aiid iuscets, shipping 
and keeping qualities, color, 
size, quality — i. p., value for 
dessert and cooking. 
For local markets, less 
emphasis is laid on adapta- 
bility for shipping and more 
upon quality, and a greater 
number of different kinds 
and varieties are planted, 
so as to be able to supply 
fruit over a long period. 
For home use, your 
choice should be governed 
first by quality of fruit, then 
succession of ripening, hardi- 
ness, resistance to disease 
and insect troubles, produc- 
tiveness, and, last of all, 
color and size. 
Anyone who intends to 
raise fruit commercially 
should gather complete up- 
to-date information from 
other fruit-growers, from 
State Experiment Stations, 
from the Department of 
Agriculture and from other 
reliable sources, including our 
"Inside Facts of Profitable 
Fruit-Growing." (Sec oppo- 
site page.) The most im- 
portant requisites for success 
in commercial fruit-growing 
seem to be love of the busi- 
ness, indomitable energy, 
cool judgment, and sterling 
honesty. But there are cer- 
tain principles which all suc- 
cessful orchardists follow. 
These are briefly outlined as 
follows: 
SUCCESS IN FRUIT-GROWING 
RUIT-GROWING is neither difficult nor expensive, especially when com- 
pared with the reward it brings. Fresh fruit from your own trees or vines is 
a luxury you might just as well enjoy if you have even a small bit of land. 
Some kinds and varieties are planted in the lawn or along the fence for 
ornamental effect as well as for fruit. 
Every grower of fruit, either for home use or market, wants good fruit. 
That's the kind that gives satisfaction and profit — it's only the poor fruit — 
such as should never be put on the market — that goes begging. 
Your success depends chiefly upon yourself. If you lay your plans care- 
fully, if you study and follow the correct methods of planting, cultivation, 
etc., you will be amply rewarded for your trouble and expense. 
Those who plan to ship 
to big markets confine their 
planting to a few varieties, 
and their choice is governed 
liy the following factors in 
about this order: productive- 
ness, hardiness, resistance to 
WHERE A good site is 
TO PLANT reasonably free 
from late spring 
frosts and well drained, with 
soil deep enough to nourish 
the trees, which will minimize 
injury from summer drought 
and severe winters. The ideal 
site for an orchard is one 
somewhat above the adjoin- 
ing land, as it has the ad- 
vantage of both soil and at- 
mospheric drainage. The latter is more important, as the 
soil can usually be drained artificially. The commercial 
grower also considers carefully the character of the roads 
CONTENTS 
to railroad station or market and the railroad facilities. 
There are very few places that will not grow some kind of 
fruit. 
WHAT Having decided what kinds you wish of 
TO PLANT those that succeed in your section, select the 
varieties which do well there and which also 
suit your purpose. Varieties which are highly satisfactory 
for home use or to sell on 
nearby markets may not be 
the best for distant markets 
because they do not stand 
handling and shipping well 
enough to reach the con- 
sumer in good condition. 
WE ARE always glad to answer questions, but we 
have tried to give in this book the information 
required before your order is placed. If you will 
kindly look through this index, it may save you the 
bother and delay in writing. 
Page 
Adaptability Tables 10, 11 
Causes of Failure 6 
Co-operative Buying 9 
Distances to Plant 2 
Evergreens 29 
How to Handle Trees on 
Arrival 6 
How to Know Good Trees. . 3 
How to Order . . . (See Price List) 
How to Make Young Or- 
chard Produce 7 
How Nursery Trees are 
Grown 8, 9 
How to Prepare Ground .... 5 
How to Plant 5 
How to Prune at Planting . . 6 
Number to Acre 2 
Page 
Nut Trees 28 
Picking, Ripening, Storage • 
Dates of Apples 12 
Picking. Ripening, Storage 
Dates of Pears 22 
Ripening Dates of Peaches , 17 
What to Plant 1, 10, 11 
4 
7 
What Age to Buy 
What Kind to Buy 3, 
when to Order 
When to Plant 
When We Can Ship 
Where We Can Ship 
When Trees Bear 
Where to Plant 
Where to Order 
Why We Grade by Diameter 
DESCRIPTIONS 
Page 
Apples 13, 14. 15 
Apricots 21 
Asparagus 27 
Blackberries 25 
Cherries 19 
Climbing Vines 32 
Crabapple 15 
Currant.1 27 
Dewberries 25 
Gooseberries 27 
Grapes 24 
Hedges 32 
Iris 31 
Page 
Lilac (Inside Back Cover) 
Peaches 16. 17, 18 
Pears 22, 23 
Peonies (Inside Back Cover) 
Phlox (Inside Back Cover) 
Plums 20. 21 
Quince 23 
Raspberries 27 
Rhubarb 27 
Roses 31 
Shade Trees 82 
Shrubs 30 
strawberries 26 
Violets (Inside Back Cover) 
parent. Midseason bloomers 
Red Astrachan and Wealthy. 
Northern Spy, Rome Beauty and York Imperial. 
The grower for distant 
markets confines his varieties 
to a comparatively small 
number. But for home use or 
to supply local markets the 
selection should cover as 
long a ripening season as 
possible, which calls for a 
greater number of different 
kinds and varieties. Note: 
It is wise to plant more than 
one variety of a kind. "It 
is an open question whether 
any variety is as productive 
or produces as fine fruit 
where self-fertilized." The 
Gravenstein, Northern Spy, 
Spitzenberg and VVinesap ap- 
ples are more or less self- 
sterile and should have other 
varieties that bloom at the 
same time planted near them. 
It is an interesting fact that 
all the most profitable va- 
rieties of apples bloom me- 
dium to late in the spring. 
This does not affect their 
time of ripening, but they are 
less apt to be injured by late 
spring frosts. 
The following varieties of 
apples are all late bloomers: 
Baldwin, Banana, Black Ben, 
Delicious, Grimes Golden, 
Jonathan, King David, Liv- 
land Raspberry, Maiden 
Blush, Mcintosh, Oldenburg 
(Duchess of). Paragon, Rhode 
Island Greening, Spitzenberg, 
Stayman, Wagener, Wilson 
Red, Winesap, Yellow New- 
town, and Yellow Trans- 
are: Gravenstein, Melon, 
Extra late bloomers are: 
