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Fruits 
Fruits are one of the most healthful and 
popular foods available to mankind. Almost 
everybody likes fruits. Doctors and scientists 
have found out that fruits contain many valu¬ 
able vitamins that are necessary to health. 
Fresh fruits are especially rich in health value. 
Every home should have a few fruit trees 
and berry bushes. They are easily cared for 
and, in addition to producing luscious fruit, the 
foliage is ornamental and works into any land¬ 
scape design. 
Don’t fail to include fruit when you plant 
your home grounds. 
PLANTING FRUIT TREES 
All fruit trees should be planted just like 
other deciduous trees. The tops should be 
trimmed back and branches left low on the 
trunk to make picking easy. Care should be 
taken to get the hole large enough to take 
all the roots without cramping. Put fine 
black dirt next to the roots and water well. 
Any good, well drained soil is suitable for 
fruit trees. If a high spot of land is available 
it is good, and if there is a northern slops, that 
is better yet, for it means the early spring 
growth will be retarded so the blossoms will 
not be caught by a late frost. 
It is customary to plant apples and other 
fruit trees from 16 to 24 feet apart. 
After the trees are set they should be culti¬ 
vated throughout the season, or else a cover 
crop such as buckwheat should be planted at 
once. Trees in the middle west should not be 
cultivated after the middle of August, so growth 
will stop and the wood will harden before freez¬ 
ing weather. 
If you are planning an orchard we would 
advise you to write to your state experiment 
station for bulletins on orchard growing. There 
is much to be said on this subject and we can¬ 
not deal satisfactorily with it here. 
Apples 
No garden is complete without apple trees. 
No other fruit can take the place of good 
apples as food. Growing children as well as 
grown ups need plenty of fruit. The apple 
with its abundance of vitamines is ideal for 
satisfying that craving for something to eat 
between meals. “An apple a day keeps the 
doctor away.” 
The apple is the staple fruit of the United 
States as it can be grown over almost the en¬ 
tire area of our country. The long keeping 
quality of the . apple makes it possible with 
modern cold storage methods to extend the 
apple season to cover every month in the year. 
There is nothing monotonous about apples. 
You can grow them in all sizes, flavors and 
colors, hard and soft, red, green and yellow. 
The apple can be used in more ways than any 
other fruit. You can bake it and boil it, roast 
it and fry it, serve it with meats or preserve it 
or jam it, or pickle it—there is no end to the 
uses to which you can put it. 
The varieties we list here are staple, depend¬ 
able varieties that have been carefully selected 
for general desirability and especially for their 
hardiness. Any of these varieties can be ex¬ 
pected to grow and bear well under average 
conditions. 
Summer Varieties 
ANOKA. —A wonderful new apple which gen¬ 
erally commences to bear the next year after 
planting. Extremely hardy and productive. 
Many trees have borne fruit in the nursery 
rows at age of 16 months. Fruit large, yel¬ 
low streaked with red. Resembles Duchess. 
Excellent flavor. Ripens in August but may 
be used for a month before ripe. 
DUCHESS—A large beautiful apple; roundish, 
streaked red and yellow; tender, juicy and 
pleasant. A kitchen apple of best quality, 
and esteemed by many for dessert. Tree very 
hardy, a fair grower, and a young and abund¬ 
ant bearer. Season, July to September. 
SUMMER PEAR —Having stood a most severe 
test of over thirty-three years, always doing 
credit to itself, we take pleasure in offering 
this delicious apple to our patrons. As hardy 
as the Duchess of Oldenburg; a heavy and 
early bearer; fine-grained, with a distinct 
pear flavor. Season, August. 
TETOFSKY —Medium size, yellow ground, 
handsomely striped with red, and covered 
with a whitish bloom; juicy, sprightly acid 
and agreeable. A stocky grower; very hardy 
and productive. July and August. 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT— Tree introduced 
from Russia by the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. A good grower and an 
annual bearer; hardy, but in some sections 
subject to blight. Fruit medium in size, 
roundish conical in form; skin smooth, trans¬ 
parent, surface clear white becoming pale 
yellow when matured; flesh white, tender, 
fine-grained, juicy and subacid. This is one 
of the best of our early summer apples, and 
is recommended to those seeking an early 
variety. 
