. Spaulding's manual of favorites : descriptive, illustrated, prefaced with tables, rules and plans. Nurseries (Horticulture) Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Fruit trees; Fruit; Trees; Shrubs; Plants, Ornamental. 50 SPAULDING NURSERY AND ORCHARD CO. growers all over our land derive larger incomes from their small plants of per- haps less than ten acres each, devoted to these crops, than does the average farmer from his many acres, given to farm crops. Many a farm
. Spaulding's manual of favorites : descriptive, illustrated, prefaced with tables, rules and plans. Nurseries (Horticulture) Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Fruit trees; Fruit; Trees; Shrubs; Plants, Ornamental. 50 SPAULDING NURSERY AND ORCHARD CO. growers all over our land derive larger incomes from their small plants of per- haps less than ten acres each, devoted to these crops, than does the average farmer from his many acres, given to farm crops. Many a farmer, with one-fourth of his farm devoted to a well-managed apple orchard, obtains larger profits from that part than from the entire three-fourths besides. The demand for choice fruits at paying prices is constantly growing, it will be a long while before all of our rapidly increasing population will be the free buyers and consumers of fruit that the best interests of all demand. 4. It pays in the greater beauty and interest which trees, shrubs and plants impart to a place. We have only to compare the desirability of an)- home planted with a pro- fusion of ornamental and fruit trees, shrubs, vines and plants, with the same or similar grounds (as for instance a new home) devoid of these. The one at- tracts with an irresistable charm; the other is bare and forbidding, in a measure. A costly house never can make up for a lack of trees. One that is inexpen- sive but neat, with handsome garden surroundings, shows to far better ad- vantage than a home costing double the money, but without the presence of lawn, trees, and flowers. WHAT CONSTITUTES JUDICIOUS PLANTING. It is a mistake to set out a hundred or more apple trees of one or two varie- ties and call that planting a place. It is a mistake to overdue in any one direc- tion of planting, and then to plant inadequately in other directions. There certainly should be (a) an ample apple orchard, yielding, by a good selection of varieti
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