THE HOME ORCHARD To The Commercial Grower 
Beauty and utility combined, for the 
small home owner. 
The Home Orchard offers an opportunity for the owner 
of a home in suburban areas to beautify the back yard, while 
putting it to use. By the planting of a variety of fruit trees, 
the Home owner can enjoy the beauty of the flowering 
period of such fruits as appeal to his tastes. Most of the 
varieties which are suited to Home planting are beautiful 
in the Spring, when laden with their colorful blooms. 
Following the blooming period is the satisfaction of shady 
spots provided in the back yard, either for the housewife to 
enjoy leisure moments during the day; for sewing or read¬ 
ing; or for the enjoyment or pleasure of the children. Thou¬ 
sands of home-owners all over the land enjoy their evening 
meal in the shade of fruit tree dotted back yards, during the 
heat of Summer. A back yard with a well kept lawn and 
utilizing fruit trees for shade, is an ideal spot for the family 
from June until the ending of Summer. 
A yard so planted is also a thing of satisfaction when the 
trees fruit from early Summer until late Fall. Home grown, 
fully ripened fruit is much better tasting, in the opinion of 
the owner, than any which can be bought on the market. 
Home canned fruits, or jelly and preserves made from your 
own fruit give a sense of pride and a satisfaction to the 
possessor, far beyond the labor involved. 
For the male of the family, satisfy that urge which attacks 
every human in the Spring, to delve in the ground, by having 
an assortment of fruit trees to fuss with. Pruning, digging 
and watching the maturing of your own fruit give an outlet 
for that desire for contact with “Mother Earth.” 
‘Starred Varieties Are Suitable for Home Orchard Planting 
In the following pages of this catalog you will find certain 
varieties which are starred. These are suitable for home 
orchard planting. Home orchard grown fruit has an added 
attraction for the children of the family. Not only does the 
orchard tend to keep them at home, but in after years many 
pleasant memories remain of the happy hours spent under 
the ti'ees in the back yard. The family orchard teaches chil¬ 
dren to take an interest in the things within their home. By 
making part or all of the care of the trees and berries part 
of their home duties, they will be taught that the best things 
of life come through their own efforts. We use as pains¬ 
taking care in the propagation of home orchard trees as we 
do in the commercial varieties. The purchaser of a home' 
orchard planting assortment receives the same grade of 
stock as the buyer of ten thousand trees. 
Until about twenty years ago, every fruit grower had his 
own home orchard. He might and often did specialize, but 
practically every ranch had its own home orchard, which 
contained every variety which experience showed did well 
in that vicinity. 
As a consequence of this, there was little cash outlay for 
fresh fruits, or for'canning and preserving fruits. The aver¬ 
age fruit grower at present pays out many dollars for fruit 
which he could raise on his own property. Utilize your ditch 
banks and odd corners and have better fruits for home 
consumption. 
Bud Selection and Its Meaning 
in Dollars and Sense 
Varieties cannot be improved through bud selection but by 
bud selection the inherent good qualities of a variety can be 
maintained. Through bud selection the nurseryman can 
leave a lasting impression on the fruit grower’s bank bal¬ 
ance. Other factors being the same, trees propagated from 
heavy bearing, true-to-type trees will maintain those charac¬ 
teristics. Naturally, then, bud selection as practiced by us 
will have a lasting effect on the returns which you, as a 
grower, will receive over the life of your orchard. We can 
cite you to orchards which are adjacent, the one planted with 
“ROEDING’S QUALITY” TREES showing as high as 25% 
greater returns than the one planted with “just trees.” THE 
REASON? Our buds were and are selected from the best 
orchards which we can locate. Best, not only from a pro¬ 
duction standpoint, but trueness-to-type and size and quality 
of fruit. If there are outstanding trees in such an orchard, 
these are used in preference to the other trees. 
Our men travel the State, always on the outlook for the 
best sources of bud-wood. Distance from our propagating 
grounds is no factor, when we succeed in locating a superior 
source of bud-wood. For we know that you, as a grower, are 
making an investment from which you expect to receive re¬ 
turns for an extended period of time. The extra labor to 
which we go in this work may, and oftentimes does, make the 
difference between a profitable and an unprofitable invest¬ 
ment for you. 
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