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“Safety First” 
Applied to Fruit Growing 
During the past ft'w years “.safety first” 
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citios, large mining and mannfaetnring 
industrio.s and automobile as.soeiations 
that no two words are more familiar to 
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\ mistake in setting a variety of straw¬ 
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mark(‘t can be corrected in a eonjile (if 
years. If in bush fruits, it will take 
twice as long or longer to correct. A 
A California Hop Field. Fig. 77. See page 185 
mistake in peach varieties may take four 
to siv years to discover, and as many 
more to correct, but a mi.stake in apides 
may not be discovered for 15 ye.ars. and 
with another 15 years for correction it is 
surely a discouraging situation, and often 
goes uncori'ccted. 
Sometimes these mistakes art' due to 
choosing standard varieties tliat do not 
prove adajited to the grower's soil or 
climatit-* conditions; but oftener the mis¬ 
take is due to choosing new, untried va¬ 
rieties with nothing to back tht'in aside 
from the eloquence of the agent and a 
gorgeous colored plate; or the eloquence 
may be. transferred to the pag*is of a cata¬ 
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addrt'sses having bet'ii withheld out of 
consideration for the te.stimouial writers’ 
extreme modesty. 
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new varieties of fruits offered during the 
past 20 years. Then chet'k up with the 
varieties offered today, and .sec how many 
have drop))ed into oblivion. Some have 
proved worthy of continued cultivation, 
at least in some sections, but how few 
are these in comparison with those that 
have fallen by the wayside. Some still 
exist only because some one made the 
mistake of planting them instead of a 
tri^l and time variety. I heard, a year 
ago, of a man who had 200 Spencer 
Seedless apple trees. Do you envy liim? 
If you do, get out your back volumes 
of The R. N.-Y. and carefully peruse 
“Puldi.sher’s Desk.” 
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others. York Imiierial has been planted 
too far north for full develojiment. The 
same is true of Winesap, .Tonathan, 
Grimes and Staymaz’. Baldwin is not 
hardy enough to n: a long-lived tree 
in some of the colder sections of New 
York. Newtown Pippin is not adapted 
over a wide extent of territory, and 
reaches perfection only in limited areas. 
Some red varieties will not take on 
enough color on ertain soils, while R. I. 
Greening on light warm soils colors too 
freely for markets that demand a green 
Greening. The Dehnvare grape does not 
reach full perfection ou some .soils where 
Goneord seems right at home, and Ca¬ 
tawba is grown successfully in New York 
only in the Keuka region. Hill's Chili, 
Triumph and Caiman peaches will often 
give a crop in the colder st'ctions when 
the Crawfords are a conqilete failure. 
Before you make a eommercial planting 
tif fruit get posted on the behavior of 
varieties in your immt'dlate vicinity. 
Talk it over with yonr townsmen and 
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varieties; keeping in mind the demands 
of your market, whether you are willing 
to give the time and attention necessary 
to handle the very tender varieties suc¬ 
cessfully, that certain varit'ties have 
Viroven their value in your vicinity and 
that you cannot hojie t.o gi’ow a variety 
under unfavorable conditions to compete 
with the same variety gi-owu in a section 
where conditions are idt'al. 
If yon fet'l some of the new varieties 
are desirable, set aside a corner of the 
orchard and dedicate it to experiment 
and exix'rit'iice, or look upon it ns a home 
orchard for supplying the family with 
fruit and yourself with amusement. One 
oi* two trees of a variety are enough for 
testing, and some day yon will be glad 
tliert' are not more of some of them. The 
time of the new catalogue is here, and as 
we turn the jiages of out' after another 
we can fed the coming Siiring and the 
bursting buds in our veins; we can see 
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the golden pears and juicy peaches, the 
inirple, red and white grapes, and then 
with cellars filled with Winter fruit we 
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