. Making horticulture pay; experiences in gardening and fruit growing. Gardening. yo MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY Hickories of various kinds, butternuts, and Amer- ican walnuts are rarely cultivated. They all make useful and valuable trees for ornamental purposes or for timber and yield more or less nuts each year. They are rather slow in growth, but are well worth having to beautify the place as well as to add to the variety of fruit for the home table. These nuts all have more or less value in the markets, so that any surplus can easily be disposed of. THE PEACH In favorable localities the peach
. Making horticulture pay; experiences in gardening and fruit growing. Gardening. yo MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY Hickories of various kinds, butternuts, and Amer- ican walnuts are rarely cultivated. They all make useful and valuable trees for ornamental purposes or for timber and yield more or less nuts each year. They are rather slow in growth, but are well worth having to beautify the place as well as to add to the variety of fruit for the home table. These nuts all have more or less value in the markets, so that any surplus can easily be disposed of. THE PEACH In favorable localities the peach may be grown from Connecticut to Florida and westward, except in the coldest locations among the mountains, to the Pacific coast. In cold localities it is generally placed in sheltered situations where the sun will. FRUIT HARVESTING LADDERS not strike the buds too strongly during winter, and thus make them swell and freeze. The north side of a hill is better than any other exposure in cold localities. Proximity to lakes and rivers is also favorable, provided the trees are not set on low ground. The peach does best on light soils, but will suc- ceed fairly well on even heavy ones. The trees, as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville), 1868-1946. New York, Orange Judd Co.
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