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Just a few dollars invested in trees 
and vines chosen to ripen fruit in suc- 
cession will supply a family with fresh 
fruit in season, and with a surplus to 
preserve, dry, can pickle, and to sell. 
Few things will give as much pleasure 
and enjoyment as fruit, berries, grapes 
apples, figs, peaches, plums, etc. In 
the home orchard many varieties can be 
grown and enjoyed that cannot be bought 
for some of our most delicious kinds 
are too soft to handle or are otherwise 
unsuited to marketing or shipping. 
Fruit can be grown in all sections of 
Texas. Almost any Texas farmer or his 
wife may easily learn to raise fruit. 
Most farm families either have to grow 
their own fruit or to do without it for 
most of the year. Fruit in the diet is 
essential to the health. As may be 
geen from the recommendations, fresh 
fruit may be grown in a great part of 
Texas for nine months of the year. 

Select the best soil possible for the orchard; a sandy—loam if possible. 
Locate the orchard as close to the house as you can. Set it on high ground 
or upper slope out of frost pockets and on well-drained soil. If necessary 
construct terraces to prevent erosion. The common practice among orchard- 
ists is to set trees on top of the terraces. It is essential that the soil 
be well-drained, for fruit trees do not like to have twet feet". 
Also, plan to keep your orchard cultivated and free from weeds. Cultiva- 
tion will maintain the orchard in good growth, make it more productive and 
keep it in better health. An acre of cultivated orchard will pay far bet- 
ter than an acre of cotton - in health, pleasure, money and pride. 
Printed in the interest of better fruits for Texas 
With the compliments. of 
O. S. GRAY PECAN NURSERY _ 
')\ ARLINGTON, TEXAS | 
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