. Continental Nurseries. Trees, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture), New York (State), Rochester, Catalogs. FRUIT APPLES. The first fruit, both in importance and general culture, is the apple. Its period, unlike that of other fruits, extends nearly or quite through the year. By planting judicious selections of Summer, Autumn and W'mter sorts, a constant succession can be easily obtained of this indispensible fruit for family use. There is no farm crop which, on the average, will produce one-fourth as much income per acre as will a good apple orchard. As it takes
. Continental Nurseries. Trees, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture), New York (State), Rochester, Catalogs. FRUIT APPLES. The first fruit, both in importance and general culture, is the apple. Its period, unlike that of other fruits, extends nearly or quite through the year. By planting judicious selections of Summer, Autumn and W'mter sorts, a constant succession can be easily obtained of this indispensible fruit for family use. There is no farm crop which, on the average, will produce one-fourth as much income per acre as will a good apple orchard. As it takes from six to eight years for an orchard to come into bearing, some people hesitate to plant, regarding the time and expense as in a great measure lost. In reply to this we would (luote the remarks made by O. C. Chapin, of East Bloomfield, N. Y. to J. J. Thomas. He said he consid- ered the yearly growth of each apple tree planted in his immense orchard of over one hundred and fifty acres, to be worth fully one dollar before they commenced bearing. He has had experience of nearly half a century, and he says that he considers this a low estimate. At fifty trees per acre, this would make a yearly ' increase of value of fifty dollars per acre, which no doubt it quite within the mark. As fruit has become cheaper on account of the increased supply, a large and constantly increasing European export has sprung up which affords highly remunerative prices for the best selected specimens of our orchards, while the new process of " Evaporation " of fruit has become a recognized auxilliary to th>- horticulture of the land. With the immense consumption by this process of evaporation, it may be doubted if apple orcharding will ever in any season be less than highly remunerative. All the surplus of orchards- all " wind falls " and defective specimens can at once be gathered and sold at a fair price to the evaporating establishments which now exist in almost every town in a
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