SUNSET SEED 
pruit Departn)ent 
(For Novelties. See Page 9.) 
The pAMiLY Orchard. 
Every suburban or country home should have its fruit trees and vines, the product of which would 
be for HOME use. Where fruit is grown in 
commercial quantities there is usually a 
plethora of a few varieties, and these not 
best adapted to family use. Every home, 
wherever circumstances admit of it, should 
have its grounds adorned with trees of some 
kind. Some one has well said, " Eat fruit and 
shun the doctor," and there is merit in the 
suggestion, for physicians generally admit, if 
not the curative properties of fruits, at least 
their corrective tendency and benign influence 
in minor ailments. A suburban acre residence 
and the country home have an increased value 
by the addition of a few fruit trees, vines and 
ornamental plants. These are the utilitarian 
and economic views, but there are others. 
Beauty and sentiment are lent to the home by 
this trifling improvement that, once inaugu- 
rated, will never be dispensed with. Who shall 
measure the interest evinced by the younger 
membeis of the family, in watchiug nature's 
annual procession from blossoming to ripening? 
Such experiences in youth are never forgotten ; 
in old age the memory of them awakens the 
keenest pleasure, and creates a feeling akin to 
reverence for the old home. Then, again, 
there are fruits — and fruits. Who would not 
rather eat the cherry with the polish of nature 
unsullied upon it, the peach chilled with 
morning dew, the plum or grape with 
bloom unflecked, the berry that comes cool 
from the shade of its own leaf, or the orange 
that perfected itself in the dusk of its own 
evergreen depths? And these advantages, or 
most of them, may be had by thousands, at but 
little trouble or expense, who now are without 
either the fruit or the beauty of foliage. Space 
can nearly always be found. An arbor can be covered with a grape vine ; borders of walks can be 
of strawberries or currant bushes, and trees placed here and there, where ornament or the require- 
ment of shade suggest. The FAMILY TRBE SHOULD BE A SOURCE OF PLEASURE, PROFIT, INSPI- 
RATION AND DEVOTION. 
.IPPLE, KING OF TOMPKINS COUNTY. (See page 93.) 
While we aim to have all our fruit trees true to name, and hold ourselvei ready, on proper proof, to 
replace, free of charge, all stock that may prove untrue to label, or to refund amount originally paid by the 
customer, it is mutually understood and agreed between the purchaser and onrselves that our guarantee of 
genuineness shall not make us liable for any sum greater than that originally paid us for such stock 
as may prove untrue. 
In ordering, please state whether substituting will be permitted, as, when no instructions accompany the 
order, we feel at liberty to substitute similar sorts. 
