. Eastern fruit . Lorenz Seckel in the "Nock" section of the present city in 1750. It evidently grew there l>y accident, but there appeal's to be no doubt that from this tree most of the grafts of the earlier Seckel pear trees were obtained, and it is claimed that this tree was the ancestor of them all. There's a business in water cross and some neighborhoods are low enough to raise it. Some of those who know how to do it make more monev than the lawyers. 'T saw your ad in "Eastern Fruit" is the way to start a letter. I Mention "Eastern Fruit" when you ' answer
. Eastern fruit . Lorenz Seckel in the "Nock" section of the present city in 1750. It evidently grew there l>y accident, but there appeal's to be no doubt that from this tree most of the grafts of the earlier Seckel pear trees were obtained, and it is claimed that this tree was the ancestor of them all. There's a business in water cross and some neighborhoods are low enough to raise it. Some of those who know how to do it make more monev than the lawyers. 'T saw your ad in "Eastern Fruit" is the way to start a letter. I Mention "Eastern Fruit" when you ' answer advertisers. SPECIAL. OFFER TO NEW SUBSCRIBHRS BALANCE OF FIRST 3 YKAKS lOK $ 1 For the next TWO wr will ,>t suhacriplions to FRUIT from new suiiscnlicTS at the specini rate ol » ; with tlu' W.'i^tli! ..i .Vpl'l. 111. Distiict 800 trees for $15, cash, on the trees, this being at he rate of $ per acre. In Virginia, it is customary to inditate the size of orchards by the number of trees and not by the acreage, as the land is often so rough that regular planting is impossible. Commissioner Koiner's Keport for 1911 says: "The apple crop in Fred- erick county this year i>rougnt into that county nearly $1,,o(m». This being a short crop year, those fig- ures will be largely increased by a full crop. The intelligent methods in orchard management by a number of our fruit growers have proven the immense profit there is in growing grees 31 minates and 29 degrees 2'i 13 minutes and S:'. degrees ;{7 min- utes and is bounded on the north by West Virginia and Maryland, on the south l)y North Carolina and Ten nesoe, and on the west by Kentucky. In general outline the State is an if regular triangle. The southern boun dary is a straight line 440 miles long, but the other boundaries are extreme- ly irregular, following various Appala chian ridges in the northwest and tlie Potomac river on the northeast.
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