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Excerpt from Fruit Growing With a Selected List of Varieties for New Hampshire Soils adapted for growing almost any kind of tillable crops and in good heart will grow fruits. The mistake is often made that the best of our farm fields are too good for fruit and should be retained for agriculture. No land is too good 'for fruit growing, and when one realizes that the profits derived from fruits usually average from two to ten times that of general agricultural crops on the same area, why should they not be given first place? Fruits do and will grow on our rocky hillsides and worthless fields, but this does not prove that for best results they should be planted in such situ ations. When preparing the soil to receive fruits, extra attention should be given it. The deeper the soil is stirred and the better its physical and mechanical condition the better the results to be obtained. When the trees or bushes are set they must have continued care and attention. The appear ance of the trees and bushes themselves usually tells the story. If the plants are given proper nourishment and culture, they will make quick growth and rapid development, but it allowed to shift for themselves, they become stunted and eke out a miserable and usually an unprofitable existence. Many plow up a field and set out a fruit plantation one season the next it is in sod and forgotten. In about eight years, when apple trees, for example, -should be coming into bearing, in stead of picking fruit, it is often a hard matter to find the trees themselves. Fruit trees, like animals, are living things, and unless fed and icared for they are not to blame for not doing their best. Animals can forage for themselves, if neglected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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